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Data Center Uptime Issues Cost More Than the Downtime Itself
When a data center goes dark, most people think about the minutes the lights are out. The real damage starts after the systems come back online, and it keeps accumulating for months.
EMA Research’s 2024 analysis shows that unplanned downtime now averages $14,056 per minute across all organizatio...
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Data Center Wildfire Risk Is a Real Factor in Your Hosting Decision
When you choose a hosting provider, you probably think about uptime guarantees, bandwidth, and price. Wildfire risk probably sits much further down the list, if it appears at all. That is a mistake worth correcting. A recent study found that 79% of global data center capacity sits in areas with e...
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Data Center Physical Security Goes Far Beyond Locked Doors
When most people imagine a secure data center, they picture a locked server room. The reality is far more demanding. According to IBM’s latest Cost of a Data Breach report, the average cost of a data breach globally was $4.44 million in 2025. For healthcare organizations operating under HIPAA, th...
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Firewall vs Antivirus: Understanding Your Security Stack Needs
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Cybercrime hit a devastating milestone in 2024: $16.6 billion in losses were reported to the FBI alone, a staggering 33 percent surge from the year before. Yet even against that backdrop, one of the most persistent myths in digital security is ...
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Data Center Space Planning: Maximizing Your Infrastructure ROI
The digital economy runs on physical space - and that space has never been more contested. In 2025, colocation vacancy in North America declined to a new all-time low of 1.4%, as AI and hyperscale occupiers raced to secure power and capacity. If your organization is making decisions about data ce...
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Server Crash Data Recovery: What Every Business Should Know
Server downtime is not a theoretical risk. It is an operational certainty: unexpected outages are a common challenge, with 37% of servers experiencing at least one unexpected outage in recent years. When a server crashes, the fallout can be immediate, severe, and, without the right plan in place,...
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