Reduced to Tiers: what uptime standards don't reveal about a data centre
Don't mix up Tiers and Levels when it comes to assessing a new data centre partner

It is important that servers are inaccessible to third parties and generally left undisturbed
The official Tier classification of a Data Centre Tiering tells you everything you need to know about the reliability of a facility, right? Wrong. The Tiering only guarantees a specified standard of...
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