Data Center Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery in the Data Center: Natural Disasters are a fact of life. They come annually with little warning and exude an incredible brute force; demolishing anything and everything that crosses their path. These “acts of God” do not play favorites or care what they may be destroying in their wake. They are unpredictable, unreliable, and unchangeable. Just like you, I choose where to live, a company chooses where to locate their data center with some emphasis placed on the odds of a natural disaster occurring. And just like you and I, these companies may choose, or be forced, to build or relocate somewhere that has a higher likelihood for […]
Datacenter Disaster Recovery Plan: FireHost Avoids Disaster in Phoenix

Disaster Recovery Plan in the Datacenter: FireHost Chooses Phoenix to Evade the Storm One way datacenters are avoiding Mother Nature’s fury is by building in locations with low incidences of natural disasters. And that is exactly what FireHost chose to do when selecting the new home for their state-of-the art cloud hosting facility. Phoenix is widely considered to be one of the lowest risk cities in the United States due to the low incidence of natural disasters and catastrophes such as tornadoes, flooding and earthquakes. The FireHost Phoenix data center mirrors the innovative, secure cloud hosting environments already established in Dallas and London, and will allow customers an additional […]