The OVHcloud fire still smolders
Three years after an OVHcloud data center burned to the ground, more questions than answers about the incident remain
Long Reads - Security & Risk, Peter Judge, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Backup comes to the fore
With electric power grids stressed, and long-term energy supplies in question, data centers may find themselves making more use of diesel backup power in the coming months
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How the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the data center business
Data centers adapted and - mostly - thrived in the pandemic
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Hand over your data! Tales of terror from the dark side of the data center community
Data centers look so squeaky clean, it’s hard to believe they can be involved in anything illegal, but you would be surprised what DCD has experienced in our years on the beat
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2N versus hybrid resilience
It has been said that the cloud will make reliable data centers unnecessary. The truth is, the cloud is revealing deep issues with our legacy IT
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The age of the Zettastructure
The zettastructure is evolving to handle the Internet of Things. It will change every part of our technology infrastructure
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Causes of failure
Data centers are failing too often because the root causes of those failures are being kept secret