New colocation space is filling quickly when brought online, according to new data from the telecom research firm TeleGeography. Global colocation service providers surveyed by TeleGeography have added 1.66 million square feet (154,016 square meters) of new space since the…
Business continuity planners in tornado alley have much in common with those in hurricane areas — but also key differences. Tornadoes have smaller funnels, but can appear in groups, may feature dramatically higher winds, and can strike with far less…
Wed, December 09, 2009 — Computerworld — IBM has expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems. The new system uses IBM’s specialty Linux…
Flexible outsource data center providers with high uptime and lower power costs are often the best facilities solution for Private or Interal Cloud applications. Network World — The definition of “private cloud” tends to vary from source to source, but…
Computerworld — When an Amazon Web Services data center lost power early Wednesday, the company wrote about the unfolding event with the brevity and tension of one its bestselling pot boilers. Our anonymous author, who we’ll call Sysadmin, begins his…
