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…
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…
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…
Yesterday I toured a group of college interns through our downtown data center. I talked about how Lifeline Data Centers clients come from all types of industry: software, manufacturing, health care, retail, IT services, and professional services. I talked about…
Data center management is complex. Whether it’s in-house, at a colocation facility, or multiple locations, it’s challenging to manage applications, operating systems, servers, storage, networking and facilities. Companies are changing their data centers at a record rate. Higher data center…
