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 is colocation a better fit than cloud computing? That’s one of the most frequent CIO and data center strategy questions we hear as companies tour our Indianapolis colocation facility. Let’s define terms. Colocation is outsource data center facilities: hardened…
99.995% data center uptime, also known as “four and a half 9’s” is 28 minutes of downtime per year or less. That’s low downtime. But how do you achieve it? Rated-4 data centers are expected to deliver this level of…
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…
