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How would you cope if your data center was severely damaged or even obliterated by a disaster?  It’s unsettling to think about the many threats that could potentially wipe out your organization’s IT resources.  Yet right now, as you’re reading this article, there are data centers struggling to recover from the devastation caused by fires,… View Article

It’s time to get physical—as in physically protecting a data center and all of its assets. The need for ironclad virtual security measures, such as managed firewalls, is well known.  Yet physical security is often placed on the back burner, largely forgotten about until an unauthorized party manages to break into or sneak onto a… View Article

Data centers are chock full of various “must-have” assets, including servers, storage systems, switches, cables, cabinets and so on. But what are the other important items that every enterprise-grade data center should have? The list boils down to these five essentials: 1.  Steady Power. Without reliable electricity—delivered directly from redundant, dedicated feeders—a data center is… View Article

Here’s a word that’s guaranteed to send a cold shiver down your spine: “downtime.” Every data center and business manager knows that system downtime means losses: primarily the time and money that disappears forever whenever vital operations slam to a halt.  When it comes to running a data center, a prime goal should be to… View Article

New Study Reveals IT Departments at Risk of Overpayment for Cross-Connects i/o Data Centers, the leading provider of enterprise colocation and data center solutions, today revealed the results of a new internal study focusing on the impact of its free cross-connect policy. Cross-connects, or the ability of colocation and data center customers to connect to… View Article

To know where data centers are going, it can be helpful to take a glance back at the past. Here’s a quick recap of where data centers have been and where they are likely to head in the years ahead: Data centers have been around, in one form or another, for over half a century. … View Article

Looking to build a new data center, but not sure where it should be?  According to BlackSwan Real Estate, here are 10 places to avoid… 1. Below sea level or in a floodplain 2. In a location that suffers from frequent natural disasters 3. Near the manufacture, storage or transport of hazardous chemicals 4. In… View Article

The i/o Data Centers Operations team plays a critical role in the data center. They are responsible for keeping the data center’s key infrastructure available and “always-on” 24x7xForever.   You may have seen the Operations team walking around the data center floor. In this newsletter, we are going to allow you to meet the team and… View Article