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Five 9’s Uptime: Why It Matters and How Fort Rock Data Center Raises the Standard Sep 23, 2025 #disaster recovery #sustainability #backup #downtime When safeguarding your business-critical systems, not all data centers are created equal. Many providers advertise “high availability,” but only a select few truly deliver 99.999% uptime —known in the industry as Five 9’s . At Fort Rock Data Center, uptime isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a... Full Article
What's Your Disaster Recovery Plan? Sep 4, 2025 #disaster recovery Disasters come in all shapes and sizes. For example – it could be as simple as a vehicle accident into a utility pole that takes out power and/or communications, or more severe, like a broken pipe that floods your building over the weekend, or devastating, like total loss of a facility due to... Full Article
GoWest 2024 MAXX Convention By Levi Manselle Oct 29, 2024 #convention #events Last week's GoWest 2024 MAXX Convention in Denver was a first for Fort Rock Data Center. I want to send out a big THANK YOU! to all of the friendly people who stopped by the booth to say hello and learn more about our facility and services. We met a number of smart and savvy credit union... Full Article
Disaster Recovery: A Key to Regulatory Compliance and Business Continuity Oct 16, 2024 #disaster recovery #industry insights #preparedness #colocation Many industries are subject to regulatory requirements mandating data protection, privacy, and business continuity planning. Disaster recovery solutions play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance with these regulations.  Fort Rock Data Center offers solutions that ensure businesses'... Full Article
2024 Foundation for Rural Service Congressional Broadband Tour at Fort Rock Data Center By Levi Manselle Sep 29, 2024 #events #Foundation for Rural Service #internet #sustainability We appreciate our partnership with Oregon State University and the Oceanic Observatories Initiative as we hosted the 2024 Foundation for Rural Service Congressional Broadband Tour at Fort Rock Data Center last month. Rural broadband helps connect all of our communities across the State of Oregon... Full Article
The Vital Role of Data Center Disaster Recovery in Ensuring Business Continuity Jul 12, 2024 #disaster recovery #industry insights #preparedness #backup #colocation Data centers serve as the central nervous system of modern businesses by housing vast amounts of critical data and supporting essential operations. Is your organization positioned to rebound from data loss and downtime, or would a catastrophic event lead to financial losses, regulatory... Full Article
Employee Spotlight: Levi Manselle, Director of Sales & Business Development Apr 12, 2023 #employee spotlight #fyi #experts After nearly a decade of managing business accounts for multiple community-based telecom cooperatives, Fort Rock Data Center Director of Sales & Business Development Levi Manselle knows what it means to provide reliable, personalized service. He’s seen his fair share of technological... Full Article
Information – Data Center Relocation Checklist – Relocate Planning Aug 9, 2022 #fyi #preparedness #backup #security Information – Data Center Relocation Checklist – Relocate Planning An information center movement (Data Center Relocation Checklist) is the process of deploying and transferring an existing data facility setting to another data center running atmosphere. It is a comprehensive process that... Full Article
Will Your Data Center Survive a 9.2 Earthquake? May 26, 2022 #disaster recovery #fyi #preparedness #downtime On January 26, 1700, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon, Washington and Northern California along the Cascadia Subduction Zone creating a massive Tsunami that was recorded as far away as Japan. We know that it has been 320 years since the last Oregon subduction earthquake... Full Article
Cloud vs. Colocation Services: Which is the best to use? Jun 27, 2020 #colocation #cloud #fyi #data migration Cloud vs. Colocation Services: Which is the best to use? People working under IT organizations are struggling to establish a stimulating business market value. They are relying on the cloud and data center colocation services to reduce expenses, increase performance, provide on-demand... Full Article
The Effect of Cloud Data Center Services Mar 17, 2020 #fyi #cloud #security The Effect of Cloud Data Center Services Just recently Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, insisted that any type of approach in which involved cloud data center services was only a course to a public cloud. These days, AWS promotes architectures that incorporate both. Microsoft has advanced a... Full Article
What Data Center Investors Looks Out For When Hiring Nov 18, 2019 #experts #fyi #sustainability #employment What Data Center Investors Looks Out For When Hiring The typical state of the art data center is progressing much faster and can now support all new sorts of workloads and consumers thanks to cloud technology. There are dozens of new types of requirements being laid all over the source... Full Article
Tips and Suggestions for Data Center Management Sep 24, 2019 #virtualization #fyi #data migration Tips and Suggestions for Data Center Management Well defined data center management has become a major priority for most business organizations. Most IT personnel are still striving hard to find the most effective way to handle a data center. With countless factors and developing... Full Article
Is Your Data Center Prepared against Natural Disasters? Sep 16, 2019 #preparedness #downtime #disaster recovery Are Your Data Center Experts prepared against Natural Disasters? Maintaining a data center operating at maximum performance is a difficult problem under the most effective of situations. Demand in power energy, cooling necessities, and security factors continues to be the top challenge for... Full Article
The Complexity of Data Center Workloads according to Studies Sep 10, 2019 #complexity #artificial intelligence #workloads The Complexity of Data Center Workloads according to Studies According to the latest yearly global data center survey conducted by Uptime Institute , it is stated that data centers are turning out to be more intricate and continues to operate most of the workloads regardless of the assurances... Full Article
5 Data Center Best Practices You Need To Know Aug 28, 2019 #security #sustainability #fyi 5 Data Center Best Practices You Need To Know Data Centers nowadays offer numerous type of services which is ideal for businesses who are planning to relocate their IT infrastructures or build a new network solution to upgrade their business. However, not all data center caters the same... Full Article