Your organization might have multiple data centers scattered all around the country. Some of them may be running out of cooling and powering needs, some are bringing high energy costs, and others are unable to expand due to limited or…
Did you know that businesses today store about 2.2 zettabytes of information, according to a recent report from Symantec? On an average, enterprises handle 100,000 terabytes of data, and it’s estimated that the figure shall grow by 67% over the…
Twitter blamed systems failures — not a crush of traffic around the Olympic games — for an outage last Thursday that saw people around the world experience problems accessing the micro blogging site for more than an hour. The San…
If your company is considering outsourcing your data center facilities, you’re probably looking at multiple colocation providers as candidates. Do the colocation providers’ pricing models make sense? Is it possible to find an incremental pay-as-you grow model for your space,…
The cold temperatures in Lulea, Sweden make it easy for the local community to greet the new Facebook data center with this huge ice sculpture of the “Like” symbol. But it’s not as welcoming for servers and IT equipment. It’s…
