After a series of near disasters and repeated power failures, Monroe Horn explains how moving his firm’s IT infrastructure down the street provided the perfect solution

It may have been the 10 times the cooling went out in the server room; or the four times in nine months we lost power; or the morning we came in to find gallons of water running down the wall 15 feet from our server room. Any of these might have been the final straw, but all of them combined to make it abundantly clear that housing our IT infrastructure inside our offices did not provide the uptime or the data security needed by ourlawyers.