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…
I’ve been working on a request for proposal (RFP) for a brand new enterprise data center this week. The company’s lease on their existing data center is ready to expire. This normally wouldn’t cause a need to look for a…
Many companies use the Uptime Institute tiering system when planning to build or lease enterprise data center space. Companies ask vendors if they are a tier III or higher data center. What these companies are often concerned with is the…
Right now we are in discussions with a client about using our outsource data center first as an addition to their enterprise data center, then as a disaster recovery colocation. The company is experiencing chronic problems with their in-house enterprise…
