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The Steadfast blog is where our highly technical management team and engineers will offer expert, practical advice for the IT Infrastructure industry. Keep an eye out for additional special events!

White Label Partners Get Enterprise-Level IT IaaS Expertise At A Fraction of the Cost
White Label Partners Get Enterprise-Level IT IaaS Expertise At A Fraction of the Cost
By: Karl Zimmerman
08/30/2017
| Data Centers
In the modern IT environment, there are few reasons for most companies to build a data center, or hire a large IT staff. The wisdom of outsourcing data center and infrastructure management is widely... more

Don’t Let An In-House Datacenter Constrain Your Company’s Growth
Don’t Let An In-House Datacenter Constrain Your Company’s Growth
By: Karl Zimmerman
02/01/2017
| Data Centers
I often talk to business owners for whom an in-house datacenter is a point of pride. They’re self-reliant, and their company has all the technology and expertise it needs to implement its goals. They... more

Almost No-One Should Own A Data Center
Almost No-One Should Own A Data Center
By: Karl Zimmerman
12/21/2016
| Data Centers
It wasn’t so long ago that it was a common practice for businesses to own and run a data center, or at least a chunk of a data center that hosted colocated hardware. Every business with a modest... more

Our New Data Center: New Jersey
By: Jamie Madison
05/28/2014
| Steadfast in the News, Data Centers, Business Talk, Edison, New Jersey
 We are proud to announce the opening of a new data center space in Edison, New Jersey! The new data center offers tier 3 redundancy and reliability, and will allow us to expand our footprint in... more

Network Security. The Quality of Protection and Controls to Manage your Servers.
12/12/2013
| Networking, The Cloud, Data Centers
There was once a time when the safest place to keep important company data was in a server in the basement. Those days are long gone.With the advent of new technologies, the threat of natural... more

Why Chicago is Perfect for Data Centers - Part 2: It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid
By: Karl Zimmerman
07/29/2013
| Data Centers, Chicago
This is the 2nd article in a 3 part series I started last week about “Why Chicago is Perfect for Data Centers.”  In the first article I addressed the advantages Chicago has because of its... more

Bigger is Better: How Steadfast Gives You a Leg Up in Data Center Economics
By: Karl Zimmerman
05/21/2013
| Data Centers, Business Talk
Imagine if every company were responsible for generating their own power, we would have overbuilt power plants everywhere, as everyone would need to build out to a peak level that they thought they... more

Steadfast Networks Launches Managed Colocation Services
By: Karl Zimmerman
06/22/2011
| Steadfast in the News, Data Centers
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 22, 2011 - Steadfast Networks, a Chicago-based hosting provider specializing in dedicated server hosting and colocation services, today announced a range of managed... more

725 S Wells - New Chicago Data Center Complete
By: Karl Zimmerman
04/27/2010
| Steadfast in the News, Data Centers
The interior of our new data center at 725 S Wells is now complete. We have some external things to complete yet, chiller and generator turn-up/testing, UPS testing, finishing the redundant dark... more

World's Largest Data Centers - 350 E Cermak Rd in Chicago is #1!
By: Karl Zimmerman
04/13/2010
| Data Centers
Today, one of my favorite industry sites, Data Center Knowledge, came out with a list of the 10 largest data centers in the world. I found two things very interesting about this:1) 350 E Cermak, our... more

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