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Peak 10 Acquires DR Specialist 1Vault
December 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
Data center service provider Peak 10 said Tuesday that it has acquired business continuity and data services specialist 1Vault Networks, along with a data center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Read More
SWAT Team 1, Servers 0
November 20th, 2009 : Rich Miller
A data protection firm wanted to depict what a genuinely catastrophic data loss might look like. So they had a group of heavily-armed guys shoot the dickens out a server cabinet. Blammo, indeed. Read More
2012: No Apocalypse, but Space Weather Threat?
November 10th, 2009 : Rich Miller
The year 2012 will bring the next peak of an 11-year cycle of solar activity, which can produce sunspots and solar flares that can interfere with satellite and radio communications on earth. Is your data center ready? A look at some common-sense preparations. Read More
Roundup: Digital Realty, Terremark, Riverbed
October 23rd, 2009 : John Rath
A roundup of news headlines from Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Terremark Worldwide (TMRK) and Riverbed (RVBD). Read More
T-Mobile: Microsoft Lost All the Sidekick Backups
October 10th, 2009 : Rich Miller
T-Mobile is telling all users of its popular Sidekick mobile that all of their data has been lost, and is blaming a server failure at Microsoft's Danger subsidiary. Read More
Tsunamis and Virtual Disaster Recovery
September 30th, 2009 : Rich Miller
The tsunami in Samoa illustrates the destructive power of these events. Here's a look at a recent presentation using a hypothetical tsunami to illustrate the use of virtualization in potential future approaches to disaster recovery. Read More
Insurer Plans Data Center in Lansing, Mich.
September 2nd, 2009 : Rich Miller
Jackson National Life Insurance Co. is planning to build a $26 million data center at a site in Lansing, Mich., not far from its headquarters and existing data center. Read More
Roundup: DataPipe, Peak 10, Equinix, APC
September 1st, 2009 : John Rath
A roundup of data center industry news from DataPipe, 3PAR, Peak 10, VMware, APC, Equinix (EQIX) and Microsoft (MSFT). Read More
Sungard Builds Grid From DR Workstations
August 31st, 2009 : Rich Miller
Sungard Availability Services is using more than 1,000 disaster recovery workstations in its Philadelphia, New York and Chicago data centers to create a computing grid that will perform processing for scientific and humanitarian projects. Read More