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Built to the 9's - The 9's of Availability Explained
Thu, 02/07/2008 - 4:06am — mchartzellHave you ever heard the term "five nines" used in reference to availability and wondered just what it meant?
"five nines" refers to the percentage of uptime, or the amount of time the system is available for use. Expressed as a percentage 'five nines" would be 99.999%. This equates to 5 minutes and 15 seconds of downtime in a year. Other "nines" and the respective amount of downtime are listed in the table below.
Branson Schools Underground Data Center is now ONLINE!
Fri, 01/11/2008 - 6:11pm — mchartzellDTS has just completed the migration of Branson School's (www.branson.k12.mo.us) entire data center to The Mountain Data Center. A 10 Gigabit Ethernet ring provided by Empire District Electric (www.empiredistrict.com) running on Foundry Networks (www.foundrynet.com) equipment provides ample bandwidth for future growth.
Cleaning out the Moose
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 6:19pm — mchartzellWe purchased the Moose - our 65' International bucket truck - several years ago so that we could install video surveillance cameras in difficult exterior locations for our customers.
Using the Moose, we can tackle your most difficult - and dangerous - high work.
Cleaning out the Moose
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 6:19pm — mchartzellWe purchased the Moose - our 65' International bucket truck - several years ago so that we could install video surveillance cameras in difficult exterior locations for our customers.
Using the Moose, we can tackle your most difficult - and dangerous - high work.
"Mountains" in Name Only
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 9:21pm — mchartzellThere are a host of colocation, data center, and record storage companies out there advertising themselves as "mountains". Some are actual underground facilities, but upon closer inspection it is revealed the floor level is far below the level of the surrounding area.