Data centers can be pictured as the ‘heart’ and Information Storage as the ‘arteries’ of present day businesses. A clogged information artery can, at any time, cause a heart attack for your company. Sincere attempts to avert such situations in…
Surveys show that reporting of disasters by top companies are on the decline. The figure has fallen to around 14% in terms of the number of companies reporting at least one instance of initiating recovery mechanism in the last one…
Big Data isn’t going away. In fact, existing data will grow 50 times the current volume by 2020, according to industry estimates. That means businesses will remain heavily dependent on data centers, according to a recent survey from the Uptime…
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…
This vendor-written opinion has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The powerful storms that recently hit the mid-Atlantic region caused electrical outages that in turn disrupted…
