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Is better automation the solution?
In South Korea, a data center fire led to government intervention. In France, just silence
As the climate warms, and facilities attempt to minimize cooling for efficiency reasons, we could see a trend for cooling systems failures
Why we need to rethink our approach
How to guard your enterprise against cloud outages
We may never know what happened on March 10 2021, when SBG2 went up in flames
More data center managers would consider moving mission-critical workloads to a public cloud provider if visibility of operational resiliency improved
Dealing with the actual destruction is just the first step...
Just because it's unlikely doesn't mean it won't happen
Power problems are no longer the top cause of outages
As many of us continue to work remotely, outages have become more frequent and more acute
Although the system is resilient, there have been some alarming staff shortages
We've heard that outages are getting more serious. But why are they also getting longer?
A simple error can dramatically alter the service delivery landscape in the Internet
Linking data center failures to organizational dysfunction and a lack of diversity
When a service goes down, the impact can vary from disastrous to so-what
The biggest lesson from the meltdown at British Airways is this: don’t have a single point of failure
An essential but complex guide to lightning protection for data centers
You can’t protect infrastructure from sharp teeth and long claws
Research and development shown at DCD’s Zettastructure event could stop fire suppression systems breaking data centers
Outages will hurt your business - and the solutions don’t always live up to expectations