Continued rollup and consolidation in the mass market hosting world, as well as the rise of cloud, means outages at a data center can act as single points of failure for multiple services.
MLB Advanced Media streams and stores a multitude of baseball games, as well as other events. Its data has gotten so big that it's taking down 8,000 square feet in Omaha, subleasing from Level 3 at the Scott Data Center. The company said Hurricane...
Kenneth Brill, one of the data center industry's thought leaders for decades, passed away on Tuesday. Brill was the founder of The Uptime Institute and Upsite Technologies, and developed the Tier System that continues as one of the primary...
Riverbed announced that it has extended its market leading Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimization product family with the addition of a new hardware appliance and upgrades to its Steelhead software
The NSA isn't likely to allow the world a look inside the new Utah data center. But that hasn't always been the case. A 2001 Discovery Channel documentary provided an unprecedented look inside the NSA's facility in Fort Meade, Maryland - including...
Faced with many data protection solutions, an enterprise IT person can find the landscape muddled and confusing. Jarrett Potts of STORServer wrote a series of columns on the eleven items to consider before purchasing a solution. We bring them all...
NVIDIA (NVDA) has acquired independent supplier of high performance computing compilers and tools The Portland Group (PGI), which has an extensive history of innovation in compiler technology for Intel, IBM and others.