Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: March 12, 2021
On OVH's data center fire, on running data centers in Texas amid the chaos in February, on the Microsoft Exchange hack, and more.
March 12, 2021
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OVH Races to Restore Services Affected by Data Center Fire - The company is ramping up production of replacement servers slated to go into other French data centers.
Most Texas Data Centers Weathered the Storm, But Things Did Not Go Smoothly - From generator fuel delivery issues to mechanical and electrical systems failing because of the extreme cold, it was one giant corner case of a week.
Microsoft Exchange Hack Could Be Worse Than SolarWinds - The massive hack’s scope keeps growing. Unlike the SolarWinds exploit, this one can be automated.
Is openSUSE Leap Ready to Be the New CentOS? - OpenSUSE Leap is set to become an identical twin to the commercial distribution SUSE Linux Enterprise in a way that CentOS never was to RHEL.
Nvidia Says It's Achieved ‘Near-Bare-Metal’ AI Performance on vSphere - Its new AI Enterprise software suite aims at simplifying AI for enterprises, which includes making it easier to do on VMware.
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