Does wholesale colocation simplify data center management? Does outsourcing the facilities side of your data center make it easier to manage the data center? Consider the what it takes for 99.995% uptime enterprise data center facilities management: F5 tornado resistant…
Cloud environments are driving data center automation and making it more difficult to do. But if you want to free up resources for other priorities, it’s a must. Shifting spending from IT operations to innovation and meeting business needs more…
Data center building, power, and cooling disciplines are not IT disciplines. Your expertise on applications, software architecture, network, server and storage design is not expertise on building Rated-4 data centers with 99.995% uptime. Likewise, experts on mission critical facilities like…
Do you need a hardened data center? If you are trying to protect your data center’s ability to withstand natural or man-made disasters and acts of terrorism, then the answer is yes. The term “hardened data center” described computer room…
Do your worst-behaved applications define your data center requirements? In Part 1, I talked about the most important applications in your business, also know as your mission critical applications. I covered reasons that many of these mission critical applications are…
