Get an inside look at a secure data center

A friend of mine is a system administrator for an East Coast company with a secondary (DR) data center at a colocation in a western state. We chatted recently about some of the features of his secondary data center, which is dedicated to maintaining security and uptime for its clients. With his insights fresh in mind (and with his permission), I thought it might be interesting to outline the processes used by the hosting organization — which I’ll leave nameless for confidentiality purposes — by discussing what you might expect to encounter were you to visit it.