The illusion of data center uptime Most of the mid-size companies that visit our Midwest colocation facility already have a data center. It’s the one in their home office. These companies have built a data center inside the four walls…
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…
Is your in-house data center nickel and diming you to death? Is your internal data center expensive to operate? Forget what’s in the racks. I’m not talking about servers, networking equipment and storage. I’m talking about facilities: your raised floor,…
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…
What’s the difference between wholesale data centers and cloud computing? Cloud computing and cloud services receive so much press that many people, even IT professionals, assume that most outsource data centers deliver cloud services including virtualized servers, storage, network and…
