Recently the owner of a small business visited Lifeline Data Centers to talk about using our outsource colocation facilities to house his money-making customer-facing systems. He has had some outages in his main office. Some of the data center downtime…
Affordable colocation is out there. Clients can rent rack space at low rates and get things like: redundant UPS power conditioning systems generator backup air conditioning security fire suppression bandwidth and transport from a few companies But if your cost…
One of the most critical factors in protecting your critical data and avoiding downtime is your data center’s ability to withstand natural or man-made disasters and acts of terrorism. The term “hardened data center” is used to describe computer room…
Do you need a zero downtime data center? Can you afford it? Most experts will tell you that the cost difference between 4 1/2 9’s and 5 9’s (the difference between 99.995 % uptime and 99.999 % uptime) is often too…
What does downtime cost your company? Have you assigned a hard dollar cost an hour of data center downtime? Is the loss of credibility with your prospects and customers more expensive than the hard dollars associated with an outage? There…
