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Retaining Productivity During Cloud Service Outages
Feb 11, 2021
Can employees remain productive when cloud service outages occur? We take a closer look at the impacts of outages – and what IT pros can do to mitigate them.
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No, COBOL Is Not a Dead Language
Feb 08, 2021
While there may not have been enough COBOL programmers to fix New Jersey's unemployment system, the language still runs the world's economy.
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Outages Sting Workers Who Rely on Zoom and Google at Home
Jan 26, 2021
The disruptions were said to have been caused by a large internet company's adjustment to its peering system.
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Parler Reappears With Help From Russian-Owned Security Service
Jan 19, 2021
The security company, DDoS-Guard, denied that it was hosting the social network AWS pulled the plug on.
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Slack Service Disrupted as People Return to Work After Holidays
Jan 04, 2021
“Down in my ‘home office.’”
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Top 25 of 2020: The Year’s Biggest Data Center Stories
Dec 22, 2020
The year's biggest stories on DCK were about the pandemic, energy, security, Kubernetes, cloud computing, edge computing, and investment trends.
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Nasdaq Resolves Connectivity Issue That Hit Some Customers
Dec 21, 2020
The problem affected a large share of clients that buy dedicated port servers in the Nasdaq data center.
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Google Services Including Gmail, YouTube Suffer Major Outage
Dec 14, 2020
The outage affected most of Google's services. Functionality was restored to "vast majority" of users about one hour later.
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The Pandemic Illuminates Value and Shortcomings of Remote Data Center Management Tools
Dec 14, 2020
Remote data center management tools, the cornerstone of business continuity during the COVID-19 crisis, have come a long way but continue to suffer from technology silos. In this DCK special series, Maria Korolov takes a deep dive into the state...
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Flood of Day Traders Strains Online Brokers and the Backlash Is Swift
Dec 09, 2020
The hardware failure at Equinix's NY5 data center in New Jersey is just the latest example of online brokerage outages caused by a sharp increase in small stock orders.
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