Syria Cut Off From the Internet
The war-torn country of Syria effectively disappeared from the Internet Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple monitoring services.
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Articles in category: Data Center Outages
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This Box Keeps Information Flowing During a Crisis
Read Full ArticleThe creators of Ushahidi, a crisis mapping platform, have developed hardware that keeps wireless communication going in the midst of chaos. The people behind Ushahidi, a software platform for communicating information during a crisis, have now developed what they are dubbing a “backup generator for the Internet”—a device that can connect with any network in the world, provide eight hours of wireless connectivity battery life, and can be programmed for new applications, such as remote sensing.
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Verizon to Invest $100 Million in Renewable Energy
Read Full ArticleVerizon Communications Inc. (VZ) said Tuesday that it plans to spend $100 million to install solar panels and fuel cells at more than a dozen facilities that will generate and use the clean power.
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Facebook To Build Huge New Data Center In Iowa - Here's Why
Read Full ArticleFacebook is planning to build a massive data center in Altoona, Iowa, the company said on Tuesday. That's right, Altoona, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines. With more than a billion users around the world to support and just three wholly owned data centers (Forest City, North Carolina; Prineville, Oregon; Luleå, Sweden, with the latter two still being built out) Facebook may have needed another ...
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Michigan County Offline After Data Center Fire
Read Full ArticleIT services in Macomb County, Michigan are offline after a fire damaged the building that houses the county's data center. Macomb County, which is just west of Detroit and has 850,000 resident, did not have a backup data center.
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New Categories for Data Center Best Practices (Part 1)
Read Full ArticleUse-Case Examples: Energy Controls Lower Consumption. A wealth of data is available on the subject of energy efficiency in the data center; much of this data is driving energy-efficient DR best practices. Organizations such as the Open Data Center Alliance
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Not Every Cloud Outage is Created Equal
Read Full ArticleWhile it seems like “the cloud is down” every few months. Outages from public cloud providers do happen, but not every outage is created equal and not every outage impacts customers in the same way, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.
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Power Outage Knocks DreamHost Customers Offline
Read Full ArticleWeb hosting provider DreamHost experienced an extended outages when power systems failed at its data center in Irvine, Calif. The incident created hours of downtime across Tuesday and Wednesday for many of DreamHost's more than 350,000 customers.
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How Sandy Has Altered Data Center Disaster Planning
Read Full ArticleNEW YORK – Keep your diesel supplier close, and your employees closer. These were among the “lessons learned” from Superstorm Sandy, according to data center and emergency readiness experts at yesterday’s Datacenter Dynamics Converged conference at the Marriott Marquis, which examined the epic storm’s impact on the industry and the city.
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Two Bloom Energy Servers Trialled at Target
Read Full ArticleTarget Corporation, the second-largest discount retailer in the United States behind Walmart, is trialling Bloom Energy fuel cells at two of its California stores, in San Francisco and Pasadena. The trial forms part of a wider initiative to investigate on-site energy generation at Target stores; the company currently uses roof-mounted solar panels at 26 of its stores.
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A Great Time to be in the Data Center Industry
Read Full ArticleToday, you can plug in the words “data center design and build services” into an Internet search engine, and it renders results literally in the millions. A decade or so ago, however, data center specialists were scarce. Finding an architectural and engineering group that understood the complexities of the data center and spoke our language proved challenging, to say the least.
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Super Bowl Outage Blamed on Faulty Relay Device
Read Full ArticleThe power outage that interrupted last Sunday's Super Bowl was caused by a malfunction in an electrical relay device, according to Entergy New Orleans, the utility supporting the SuperDome in New Orleans.
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Steps for Protecting Your Data Center After Virtualization
Read Full ArticleBut while the benefits of hybrid cloud deployments are substantial, many managers focusing on off-site deployments tend to meet an unexpected challenge post-virtualization: protecting their remaining physical equipment, writes Shannon Sbar of APC by Schneider Electric.
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Data Center Outage Cited in Visa Downtime Across Canada
Read Full ArticleA data center power outage is being blamed for payment processing problems that prevented Visa card holders in Canada from using their cards for most of Monday.
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US Power Grid Has Issues with Reliability
Read Full ArticleThe United States has an aging and unreliable power infrastructure, writes Lisa Rhodes of Verne Global. Data center operators are looking at the best geographical locations that offer clean, reliable power, and plenty of it.
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Turning DCIM’s Big Data into Actionable Insight
Read Full ArticleDCIM’s Big Data is data about any asset, application, process, or workflow that impacts the performance of the physical ecosystem and its ability to serve the ever-changing needs of the business, writes Gary Bunyan of iTRACS Corporation.
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The 12 Days of Christmas in the Data Center
Read Full ArticleAnother year’s end, and we’re in the midst of another holiday season. Besides anticipating time off, family celebrations, and gift giving, every IT professional should be anticipating—and planning for—the challenges relating to data center energy management in 2013.
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The Year in Downtime: Top 10 Outages of 2012
Read Full ArticleThe major downtime incidents of 2012 illustrate the range of causes of outages - major disasters, equipment failures, software behaving badly, undetected Leap Year date issues, and human error.
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Utility Dominion Buys Big into Fuel Cells
Read Full ArticleA 14.9 megwatt power generating station, to be owned by a U.S.-based utility, will feed local grid in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Stationary fuel cells have been steady performers for years delivering electricity at office parks, supermarkets, or wastewater treatment plants. But utilities, for the most part, have stayed clear of fuel cells.
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Data Center Containment Components and Considerations
Read Full ArticleThis is the forth article in a best practices series on data center energy efficiency through effective airflow management strategies and focuses on data center containment components and considerations.
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Diversity Counts in Disaster Preparedness
Read Full ArticleUsing Sandy as the impetus, review your disaster plans. It's a good time to start the dialog with your business partners to understand what is important to them and what IT components make it happen. It's a good idea to update and diversify your approach to recovering from a disaster .
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Hurricane Sandy Post-Mortem: Will Your Critical IT Systems Survive Another Major Power Outage?
The Hurricane Sandy event that hit the Northeast confirms that the use of diesel fuel to run backup generators, the location of the critical systems and primary data center as well as the geographic location of backup sites are significant to sustaining the ongoing critical operations for...Read Full Article -
Sandy’s Impact: The View from the Network
Monitoring from Keynote, Renesys and RIPE provided a high-level analysis of how the Internet managed the storm, allowing us to paint a broader picture than the facility outages we’re tracking in our data center coverage. The post Sandy’s Impact: The View from the Network appeared first on...Read Full Article
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