Category Archive for : ‘Data Center Power Redundancy’

It’s seems quite natural to protect your company against a natural disaster. That’s why companies wouldn’t think twice about purchasing insurance policies to cover their equipment, facilities and other assets. You never know when an earthquake, storm, tornado or flood can hit.

Yet, the same can be said of cyber attacks. You never know when one could hit. And it can be even more devastating than a natural disaster, according to the companies who have suffered the damage of one.

The Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information security organization, surveyed companies impacted

The NYSE, along with United and WSJ.com, outages were cause for concern last week, raising a variety of questions in the midst of reports of “technical issues”. The official statement reads as follows:

“It was determined that the NYSE and NYSE MKT customer gateways were not loaded with the proper configuration compatible with the new release.”

Our very own Rich Banta, chief compliance officer and co-owner of Lifeline Data Centers, shared his own thoughts and comments in a recent TechTarget article regarding the outage.

“An attack is a technical issue you have to plan

Developers can run into problems when their applications lack scalability or compatibility. To ensure applications can meet the demands of users, developers must devote considerable time to testing, but they may need access to additional resources in order to do that.

When developers are testing the functionality of an application, a host server may become less responsive. That means, in the workplace, end users may find that everyday computing tasks take longer to perform. That’s why it makes sense to have a separate server dedicated solely to development and testing. And

Technology seems to be evolving more rapidly than the law, with regulators scrambling to draft rules only after a dispute or question arises. Lawmakers and courts encounter new issues that didn’t exist decades ago … for example, whether social media evidence is admissible in a court case.

When technology grows to the point that it triggers regulatory concerns, the Federal Communications Commission is bound to respond. Recently, the FCC tackled questions about broadband Internet, when it issued the Open Internet order. Now, the FCC is being asked to re-evaluate how cell

With a rapidly changing business climate that includes data, cloud and analytics, data centers are expected to undergo numerous changes in the next few years to adapt. However, it can be difficult to predict what those changes might be.

Following are some of the biggest variables that could impact data centers in the immediate future.

Regulatory questions

The Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet rules forbid Internet service providers from favoring some Internet traffic in exchange for payment (that’s just one provision of the rules that are also known as net neutrality law). But

Ah, summertime – sunshine, vacations and occasional devastating power outages! That’s right – blackouts are poised to steal the #1 spot from mosquitoes, on the list of top summer nuisances. And a power outage can do a lot of damage, especially when your business relies on a functional server.

In January, the middle of summer in Australia, a heat wave caused a power outage that shut down the data center for iiNet, the country’s second-largest DSL provider. The Perth-based business was inoperable for six or seven hours, after several air conditioning

When your organization experiences an IT outage, the setbacks are immediately obvious. Missed deadlines, idled employees, and customer dissatisfaction may come to mind. However, you may not have a good sense of the financial consequences of that type of disruption without a deep analysis of your company’s operations.

Depending upon the size of your company, you could be losing as much as $5,600 per minute as a result of network downtime — the average cited in a 2014 report by Gartner analyst Andrew Lerner. If your company falls into that category,

Making the decision to keep your in-house data center or make the switch to outsourcing your facility will be one of the greatest challenges you will face as a business. Keeping your in-house data center can get rather expensive and time-consuming, but if you outsource, there is a possibility that you will give up control of everything you have worked hard to create.

While having an in-house data centers can and will work for some companies, we find that most businesses can save an abundance of time, money and resources by having

When managing an outdated data center, there are improvements that may be out of the budget for your company. Keeping up with technology, equipment and servers alone are some of the most expensive updates you can make within your own facility. Other expenses such as remodeling the actual building and keeping up-to-date with security efforts will add to the already enormous expense. Justifying these improvements may be an issue for upper management, so here are three ways, identified by Robert McFarlane from Shen Milsom & Wilke LLC, you can extend the life of

Data center cooling is one of the major challenges faced by data center managers because high temperatures and excess heat can severely effect its lifespan and performance. As organizations keep adding blade servers to equip their performance, data centers are demanding more electricity and producing high heat. Sometimes the heat exceedes 30kW – 50 kW/server rack. Increased cooling and electricity demands are adding up to cooling costs and hampering productivity of data centers, and organizations are seriously investing in cooling and heat management solutions for efficient heat and equipment management.

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