Lifeline Data Center’s co-owner Rich Banta recently wrote an article called, “RISK: When What Can Never Happen – Does.” He talked about the kinds of risks that could create critical outages for data centers, and provided some recommendations about businesses…
Throughout the data center industry, there are varying levels of uptime specifications and ratings which indicate how much of the time the data center is expected to be fully operational. For data centers, Uptime Institute Tiers, TIA-942 Ratings, and BICSI…
The HIPAA Final Omnibus Rule (the “Final Rule”), published in January 2013, has made many changes to the HIPAA regulations. Data centers who handle protected health information (PHI) for their clients invariably have to comply with HIPAA provisions. However, it…
Capacity planning, when done correctly and on time, can bring in a great deal of efficiency for a data center. Capacity planning, at its core, is a simple exercise that can introduce clarity in handling data center operations. There are…
