The federal Environmental Protection Agency recently found that a data center’s uptime has no statistically significant effect on its energy efficiency. But does the claim hold water? At first blush, it would seem that uptime would hurt data center efficiency.…
Zero downtime data centers? Expensive, and often cost prohibitive. Read on about outages that affect Google. Everyone is susceptible to data center downtime. t’s been a rough couple of days for uptime at the world’s most popular sites. This morning…
Todd Gale likened his company’s recent data center modernization to picking up a running locomotive off one track and placing it on another without disruption. The task was to upgrade a 25-year-old data center, built by AT&T during the 1980s…
Considering that we here at Pingdom work with uptime issues daily (as you tend to do when you run an uptime monitoring service), we thought the latest XKCD comic strip was hilarious. For those who don’t know about it, XKCD…
With the current enthusiasm about cloud computing, some have argued that cloud platforms will replace the data center, or reduce the need for physical infrastructure. Or perhaps that all the world’s applications will run out of just five huge cloud…
