Microsoft Azure went down Monday night and stayed down for hours. That news comes as Microsoft is trying to pitch two-year-old Azure as a safe and reliable platform for consumer and business applications. As first reported by The Register, which…
In this info-rich post, Rich Miller (Data Center Knowledge) talks about there wheres and whys of proliferation of data centers in certain areas. His classification of data centers into three major categories is spot on. The first building at Facebook’s…
CIO — Cloud technology is emerging as a viable option for companies that want to cut costs, increase agility or augment their own IT resources without building out new infrastructure — or all of the above. But deciding which type…
99.995% data center uptime, also known as “four and a half 9’s” is 28 minutes of downtime per year or less. That’s low downtime. But how do you achieve it? Rated-4 data centers are expected to deliver this level of…
What plans do you have for your data center in the next 18 months? Are you building a hardened data center? Are you adding power or cooling to an existing data center? Are you faced with data center compliance and…
