Facebook has begun using IPv6, joining a growing number of leading Internet networks that have deployed the next generation of the Internet Protocol, the company said today.
After several network-related outages yesterday, Twitter continues to struggle with latency problems today, according to monitoring from Netcraft.
Yahoo's Scott Noteboom sees a historic opportunity for the data center industry to rethink long-held assumptions about humidity and temperature. "There are times during revolutions when you can do new things," said Noteboom.
Twitter was down for nearly 90 minutes this morning following a briefer outage overnight. But overall reliability has improved, with uptime of 99.8 percent or better for 2010 thus far.
Financial trading provider IPC picks Equinix (EQIX) in Asia-Pacific, AlgoSpan strieks low-latency deal with Interxion in London, Terremark launches Enterprise Cloud in Latin America.