by Matthew Ferm | Apr 17, 2014 | Data Centers
Clients get excited when starting a colocation project because they anticipate relief from managing their own datacenter. With that “dirty work” behind them they turn their attention to the latest and greatest, whizzbang, technology that the last vendor they saw...
by Matthew Ferm | Sep 29, 2013 | Data Centers
While helping a client with a Managed Services and Monitoring RFP, I visited a company that performed monitoring and managed services for datacenters and the servers, storage, and networks making up the datacenter. These folks are “monitoring Ninjas” and obsess about...
by Matthew Ferm | Sep 8, 2013 | Data Centers
You have just spun-up a new datacenter. Doing it right, you engage vendors, VARs, consultants, your staff and anyone else that can bring experience and expertise so you reduce risk. Equipment is installed, telecommunications are working, everything is cabled,...
by Matthew Ferm | Aug 26, 2013 | Data Centers
It’s 5:48 AM Saturday during a 45-day, 7×24, colocation datacenter migration. A failed disk drive combined with failover testing causes a storage array “head” to throw an error and need to be taken off-line for analysis. DBAs in India migrating databases suddenly...
by Matthew Ferm | Mar 31, 2012 | Data Centers
On February 5th we, posted an article titled “An Open Letter to Colocation Providers” In the article we offered some do’s and don’ts during the RFP process. I would like to share some observations around what prospects look for when evaluating a data...
by Matthew Ferm | Feb 5, 2012 | Data Centers
Regular readers know I am a fan of using co-location providers for small and mid-size businesses when Cloud is not appropriate. Larger businesses have the mass and scale to run their own data centers. We see a dramatic uptick in the number of organizations seeking...