IT infrastructure service provider SoftLayer Technologies now has more than 100,000 servers running in its data centers, the company said last week. The Dallas-based provider has added 14,000 servers this year.
When you're building a hardened data center in the Midwest, you need to take tornadoes seriously. That was the case at Data Cave, which uses a 4.5 million pound roof as its first line of defense against windstorms.