Mission Critical is now celebrating it 5th anniversary. However, before you assume the editors didn’t catch the extra zero in the title, “50th Birthday,” let me note that the rate of change in the industry has been accelerating
Hurricane Sandy blasted dark clouds, high winds, and rain over the Northeast coast and left in its wake, not only a disaster but also an opportunity to assess the successes and failures of our disaster preparation, performance, and recovery.
Enterprise information technology (IT) and the supporting components can eat up a significant chunk of a company’s budget, with much of it allocated to the infrastructure and personnel needed to sustain it.
Site assessments are an excellent means for making an objective appraisal of a facility’s true strengths and weaknesses and can provide a substantial return on investment.
Though this column is about Steve Manos, the story starts with his brother Mike, the slightly older of the two and with slightly more hair and pro-fessional history.
Cabling products and services are playing a more prominent role in the reliability and operation of data centers and emergency backup systems, which means that even small components of network infrastructures have a significant impact on data center operation, reliability, and cost.
In our last issue, I wrote briefly of a changing of the guard. Long-time columnist Doug Sandberg stepped aside, and Bill Mazzetti joined our editorial board.
The critical facilities industry uses service level agreements, or SLAs, extensively. SLAs vary greatly and are used both internally within corporations, between landlords and tenants—especially within colocation (“colo”) facilities