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Re: "Class A Data Center"

  • From: Jack Bates
  • Date: Thu Sep 18 16:57:46 2003 
[email protected] wrote:

Particularly of interest would be "established standards" for "Class A
Datacenter" specifically relating to the physical plant -- Power,
cooling, physical security, etc.  I think we can all agree in general on
N+1 everything, and we can go round and round again on what exactly
constitutes "Tier-1 provider," but what about the physical space itself?
I can put a fully-redundant network with multiple "Tier-1" connections
in my garage but I still wouldn't consider my garage to then be a "Class
A Datacenter."
And let's not forget that they need to have good staffing, especially the abuse department.

-Jack