It’s been a notable year for Web outages. From Netflix going down at extremely inopportune times, to Amazon Web Services’ multi-day breakdown in the spring, Internet services are still seemingly as unreliable as ever. SmartBear Software just published its list…
One of the main focus area in data centers today is Data Center Infrastructure Management or DCIM. Why is DCIM now more important to many facility managers than anything else in their data center? Streamlining power consumption DCIM provides for…
Data center building, power, and cooling disciplines are not IT disciplines. Your expertise on applications, software architecture, network, server and storage design is not expertise on building Rated-4 data centers with 99.995% uptime. Likewise, experts on mission critical facilities like…
Do your worst-behaved applications define your data center requirements? If so, you’re not alone. Your most important applications are often the hardest applications for IT to support and to keep running. These mission-critical applications and their behaviors greatly influence design…
RIM did more dancing around the issues than frank sharing as it tried to explain the BlackBerry outage–leaving CIOs to speculate. And goodwill’s running short. After an almost four-day outage of RIM’s Blackberry service, RIM’s co-CEOs gave a status update…
