In the past few years, the threat of data center failures has probably cost more than one IT manager a few restless nights. When putting critical information to the cloud, the need for secure connectivity has never been higher. In October 2012 the east coast was hit hard by Superstorm Sandy. While natural disasters aren’t the only cause for downtime, there is a way to prepare campuses for when they strike. By being prepared, data center owners and operators are to give customers an ease of mind when it comes to their critical applications.
The data centers affected by Sandy, including Datagram, Internap, and PEER 1, all had lengthy downtimes caused by a variety of problems such as flooding, loss of power and fuel pump failure. As a result of the downed systems, several popular news websites, including The Huffington Post, Gizmodo and Gawker Media suffered and went offline ...
Lisa Rhodes is Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Verne Global. Lisa Rhodes is responsible for all aspects of customer interaction, marketing and public relations. Over the past twenty years, she has held senior sales and operations roles in several global information and communications companies. She was Vice President of Sales at Alcatel, Senior Vice President of Sales at IPC, Director of Sales at Sycamore Networks and Senior Director at MCI. In every organization in which she has worked, Ms. Rhodes has played a leadership role, building and managing teams as small as 15 and as large as 300 with competencies in sales, software development, program management, network management, and OSS systems.
Verne has designed its campus to meet the demand most data center users have for unconstrained power. Our clients can grow from kilowatts to megawatts as their insatiable demand for energy increases.In Green Data Centers Are Where It's At
As data centers have grown in business importance over the past decade, with the rise of e-commerce, cloud computing and virtualization, a confluence of factors has forced companies to quickly search for alternatives to the usual high-cost locations.In Green Data Centers Are Where It's At
