From severe weather to cybercrime, disasters can happen to any data center at any time, causing power outages and headaches for information technology (IT) managers.
By virtue of its name, starting from the days of the mainframe, we traditionally tend to think of the “data center” as the central point for the data processing, storage, as well as the nexus of the data network.
In the movies and on TV the hero always knows the right thing to do, even when the required knowledge would seem to be just a bit outside his or her purview.
The colocation industry started in the late 1980s and early 1990s when corporations were looking to outsource the facility side of the earliest data centers.