Uh, oh! Rackspace, a major cloud-computing provider, experienced a connectivity loss at its Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, data center for more than a half hour on the afternoon of Dec. 18. During that time, customers could not access business services at…
New year, new data center strategy: The coming of the new year offers a time for both reflection and for planning. Data center strategy is changing for many organizations. What changes do you envision for your data center in the…
Can you build enough data center redundancy? Most businesses today have little or no tolerance for downtime. The cost of downtime is lost revenues, lost credibility and lost clients. And the first step to avoid data center downtime is to…
Good data center strategy includes considering the long-term costs of power for the data center, and managing those costs on a long-term basis. Many companies have found that outsource data center facilities (colocation) can help them reduce data center power…
Can you build enough data center redundancy? Most businesses today have little or no tolerance for downtime. The cost of downtime is lost revenues, lost credibility and lost clients. And the first step to avoid data center downtime is to…
