Monthly Archives: April 2013

City Lifeline partners with Gamma Telecom for the provision of SIP Trunking. The product management team at Gamma has produced this handy two minute video animation on how SIP Trunks can assist with business continuity and disaster recovery - and we thought you might be interested to see it. And whether you have this technology already or not, it explains exactly what Gamma can do to help you maintain ‘business as usual’, in the event of a disaster situation. SIP …

City Lifeline’s Managing Director, Roger Keenan, recently took part in a 15 minute interview with the Chartered Institute for IT. During the session he talked about colocation data centres and how they differ from cloud storage, plus a more general overview of London’s Tech City and how it compares to Silicon Valley, followed by his thoughts on making the UK more entrepreneurial. Colocation vs the Cloud In the first section of the interview, Roger was asked to give a brief …

We thought you might be interested to know that City Lifeline is one of the most environmentally conscious and sustainable data centres in London. We purchase only 100% renewable electricity, use the maximum possible bio mix in our diesel fuel and have a continuous improvement policy that is dedicated to energy efficiency. Renewable electricity - Our electricity comes from certified wind, hydro, solar and biomass sources, with no fossil fuels such as oil, gas or coal being used. It’s not …

To control something, you must first be able to measure it. This is one of the most basic principles of engineering. Once there is measurement, there can be feedback. Feedback creates a virtuous loop in which the output changes to better track the changing input demand. Improving data centre efficiency is no different. If efficiency means better adherence to the demand from the organisation for lower energy consumption, better utilisation of assets, faster response to change requests, then the very …