It’s a dilemma that is expected to continually gain scrutiny over the next few years: Data centers will be expected to find more energy efficient ways of operating, cutting down on their amount of consumption. At the same time, the…
With major floods hitting states across America, including Oregon, Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee, scientists are now predicting there’s plenty more to come over the next five years — putting residents, businesses and other organizations at risk. That’s why experts are…
2015 wasn’t a good year for data centers when weighing the damage of downtime. The costs related to downtime climbed to $740,000 in 2015 for a single data center outage. That’s up from an average of $690,000 in 2013. And…
Anyone in the data center industry has heard the statistics about the heavy costs of data center downtime, with some estimates putting the rate at an average of $7,900 per minute. But where does the fault lie? And how do…
What is the biggest cause of data center downtime? Hurricane Sandy? Power outage? Denial of service attacks? Or political instability? Apparently, the numer one cause for data center downtime continues to be the human element. According to a couple of…
