Top 10 Data Center Stories, July 2012

During the month of July, Data Center Knowledge readers were interested in stories of micro data centers being deployed at AOL and news of outages of Amazon’s cloud. Also, a feature on the Olympian infrastructure required to support the London 2012 Olympic Games was a popular subject, with stories of “data ships” and IPv4 impacting web hosting companies’ valuation ranking high on the list as well. Here’s the most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge for July 2012, ranked by page views:

• AOL Gets Small With Outdoor Micro Data Centers – July 6
• Amazon Data Center Loses Power During Storm - June 30
• Multiple Generator Failures Caused Amazon Outage – July 3
• The Olympian Infrastructure Challenge – July 27
• Still No Sign of Data Ships on the Horizon – July 5
• IPv4 Addresses Now Driving Hosting Deals - July 16
• Facebook Revises its Data Center Cooling System – July 16
• Is Apple Going Modular at its North Carolina iDataCenter? – July 19
• After The Storm: Architecting AWS for Reliability – July 2
• Surviving Electric Squirrels and UPS Failures - July 9

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About Colleen Miller

Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. She has more than 25 years of writing and editing experience, with her most recent work dedicated to the online space. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data.