When you go into a colocation site to work on your server, there are two options for entry Some facilities use unescorted entry and other use escorted entry

When a data colocation company talks about “tiers”, they are referring to the different levels of reliability they can offer for your server maintenance and storage This grading system ranges from Tier I to Tier IV, with IV being the topmost reliability in power, cooling and availability

With thousands of servers running throughout the day and night, data centers are notorious for consuming energy As people are becoming more and more aware of the ever-increasing energy use, data centers are starting to find ways to lower their consumption

The hot aisle/cold aisle system is an innovative approach to managing temperatures in a data center Most of the energy that is required to run data center that offers collocation is spent on cooling efforts, making sure the temperature is just right for a machine

Deciding which hosting services to go with can be compared to the decision between hiring a limousine driver or…driving your own limousine It’s all about how much work you want to do and how much you want to invest at the start of your venture

We’ve all had that personal experience of losing hundreds of files and hours of work due to a computer crash right at the most inconvenient moment Imagine a crash like that affecting a company that holds information computers pertinent to the survival of its place in the market

Zinc whiskers are a common phenomenon when it comes to data and colocation centers (sometimes called ‘data farms’), yet they can go unnoticed for years before they become a nuisance and a serious threat to server machines To say that the problem ‘grows’ can be somewhat accurate (even though we know zinc is not an organic substance); the whiskers are formed from pressure that eventually lifts off little pieces of zinc from metal to create microscopic threads that get longer and longer over time

Internet Access in the Past When the Internet was first introduced on the consumer market, the only option available was a dial-up connection Then, when companies realized that people wanted to be able to talk on the phone at the same time as they used the Internet, cable companies began offering Internet service through existing cable lines