If you were trying to use Outlook.com to email a link to a NYTimes.com story about events in Egypt, it's not been a good day. Both Microsoft and the New York Times have been trouble shooting service problems.
Creating a truly distributed environment isn’t always easy. Fortunately, increased hardware performance and more bandwidth availability make creating such an environment a clear possibility. Bill Kleyman looks at the tools and strategies you'll...
Data center provider QTS (Quality Technology Services) has launched two disaster recovery services designed to provide network availability in the event of virtual or physical server disruptions.
SunGard has developed a fleet of mobile disaster recovery centers that can provide on-site business continuity services. The 982-square foot facility can provide office space or raised-floor space for servers, depending upon a customer's needs.
Solar flares are a potential threat to critical infrastructure, according to NASA scientists. who say the sun's vast magnetic field is about to flip, an event that creates an elevated risk of solar activity and "space weather." One concern for...
A Utah data center supporting some of the web hosting industry's best known brands has suffered a networking outage, causing an extended service outage. The problems at a Provo, Utah facility operated by Endurance International Group, have led to...
GridGain secures $10 million to expand in-Memory Computing, Wroclaw and IBM preserve rare European documents, and Resona Bank selects a Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse.
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...