In the Midwest, the biggest risk of natural disaster is tornado. Does your data center or Midwest colocation provider have F5 tornado resistant data center facilities? Hardened data center facilities are reinforced concrete structures with roofing engineered to withstand 135mph…
The stuff you can’t (or won’t) build into your data center could be the cause of a future outage. What stuff am I talking about? Data center power redundancy – dual utility power feeds, dual generators, and dual UPS systems…
Zero downtime data centers? Expensive, and often cost prohibitive. Read on about outages that affect Google. Everyone is susceptible to data center downtime. t’s been a rough couple of days for uptime at the world’s most popular sites. This morning…
For many companies, computer systems reliability is important. Downtime can mean lost credibility, lost revenues, or worse, lost clients. Downtime is usually expensive when companies depend on computers for Internet sales, customer service, delivery of services, and manufacturing. Many companies…
There are many in the data center industry that have repeatedly called for change in this community of ours. Change in technology, change in priorities, Change for the future. Over the years we have seen those changes come very slowly…
