by Michael Gamey | Nov 10, 2018 | C15Edge Data Centers, Data Center, Data Center Secrets
As your business applications and data needs grow over time, companies can outgrow their infrastructure. Growth is supported in bits and pieces, integrating additional compute and storage but eventually many are faced with a dilemma. Aging hardware needing...
by Joe Damiani | Feb 6, 2017 | C15Edge Data Centers, Data Center Secrets
Below is a great article reprinted with permission. See links below to the original posting from Darren Ghan of Data Centre Legal Services. A quick summary is that you should pay close attention when reviewing the Force Majeure clause from your Data Centre or Cloud...
by Mark MacDonald | Sep 25, 2016 | Data Center Secrets, Data Centers, Generators
The hallmark of a good data centre is, as most people know, redundancy. All major components of the data centre (generators, UPS, cooling) should either be N+1 or 2N, where N = the number of components necessary to keep the servers and critical equipment up and...
by Mark MacDonald | Jun 30, 2016 | C15Edge Data Centers, Cloud, Data Center, Data Center Secrets, Data Centers, Edge
Plus ca change … (my best grade 11 french!) We at Canada151 Data Centers are of course trying to keep a finger on the pulse of all changes in the IT landscape and we observe and participate in the ongoing debate between cloud, private cloud (and all other...
by Mark MacDonald | Jun 30, 2016 | Cloud, Colocation, Data Center Secrets, Disaster Recovery
This is recycle of a previous post of a backup and disaster recovery post. However it is again timely as we are having numerous discussion across may industries about this topic. Our discussion includes what needs to be done to mitigate the very serious risks of not...
by Mark MacDonald | Feb 2, 2016 | C15Edge, Colocation, Data Center, Data Center Secrets, Hybrid
Colocation in smaller, local data centers appears to be making something of a comeback in our discussions after a great deal of hype around cloud had many people I spoke to wondering if there was any future for Colocation and any future for smaller Colocation...
