Leaders, do you know what your data center tier means?
And can you trust what your business partners say?
Industry Views - Outages
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How data centers can prepare for hurricane season
Hurricane season is upon us, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts an unusually busy one in 2022
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Reduce downtime with the cloud
How to guard your enterprise against cloud outages
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OVHcloud fire - is the damp inverter the smoking gun?
We may never know what happened on March 10 2021, when SBG2 went up in flames
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The shock waves from Ukraine
The Ukraine conflict and associated political and economic fallout will have short- and long-term effects on the infrastructure industry
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OVHcloud's data center fire: One year on, what do we know?
Secrecy is no surprise in this industry
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Concerns over cloud concentration risk grow
More data center managers would consider moving mission-critical workloads to a public cloud provider if visibility of operational resiliency improved
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Protecting your data from natural disasters
How to prepare for the unthinkable
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Routing security lies in the hands of tier 2 ISPs
The RPKI model works at its best when as many players as possible are involved
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Is disaster recovery a good business investment?
Consider the costs - of both outages, and mitigation
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Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage
Facebook’s hours long outage on October 4th snarled completely unrelated applications globally, underscoring the criticality — and fragility — of publicly shared digital infrastructure
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Weathering the storm
De-risk your disaster recovery to deal with weather and cyberattacks
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CDN outages like Akamai's point to deeper problems
Consolidation is producing too many single points of failure
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Fire detection - your first line of defense
You want to avoid fires. You also want to avoid pressing the panic button
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Inside the Fastly outage: a firm reminder on Internet redundancy
We rely on CDNs - you need to be aware of this and plan what to do if they fail you
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Edge isn't new. It's just an upgrade to old-fashioned CDNs
A lot of the stuff people want to do at the Edge is already being done
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So much for decentralized
Applications are easier to build, but their complexity is increasing. A Google outage can take down entire networks
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Sponsored Battery health monitoring: A first step towards predictive capability in UPS management
With edge data centers, operators could end up running thousands of sites, and most won't be staffed full-time. Who will be making sure that the UPS remains fully functional?
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Clearing the smoke when fire strikes
Dealing with the actual destruction is just the first step...
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How frequent are data center fires - and how damaging?
After the disastrous fire at OVHcloud in Strasbourg, we need information on the risk
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Learning from the OVHcloud data center fire
OVHcloud was known as a bold innovator. When the cause of the SBG2 fire in Strasbourg is finally revealed, this may be a factor
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Lessons from the OVH fire: disaster recovery plans are not a work of fiction
Just because it's unlikely doesn't mean it won't happen
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Network problems causing ever more outages
Power problems are no longer the top cause of outages
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Network as a nervous system: 5 networking trends to know in 2021
As many of us continue to work remotely, outages have become more frequent and more acute