Thinking about moving a data center? Many organizations are. A few things are driving this trend: Uptime – Uptime is more important than it used to be. More businesses “bet the business” on the availability of their computer systems. The…
When data center and facility managers meet with the CIO about new equipment, the conversations are rarely easy. The equipment they seek is often expensive, in the six- or seven-figure range, and justifying the expense can be challenging. That was…
Enterprise cloud security features are finding their way into existing public cloud computing stacks Google announced last week the end of the “experimental” availability of its high-replication data store; it’s now a “real” part of the Google App Engine SDK.…
Technology experts may argue over the relative merits of the private cloud versus the public cloud, but the fact is that even moderately sized enterprises are bent on turning their static data architectures into flexible, service-oriented ones. The question remains,…
The illusion of data center uptime Most of the mid-size companies that visit our Midwest colocation facility already have a data center. It’s the one in their home office. These companies have built a data center inside the four walls…
