Sungard Availability Services is using more than 1,000 disaster recovery workstations in its Philadelphia, New York and Chicago data centers to create a computing grid that will perform processing for scientific and humanitarian projects.
Many customers of dedicated server provider ServerBeach experienced downtime Friday night after a power failure in the company's data center in Herndon, Virginia.
Medical billing specialist Emdeon (EM) said this week that it has leased a 34,200 square foot property near the Nashville airport for a new data center.
An Equinix Inc. (EQIX) data center near Paris suffered a cooling outage late Wednesday, leaving some customer services offline for hours as the provider used backup cooling units to regain control of the temperature in the facility.
A roundup of industry news from CoreSite, NaviSite (NAVI), Verari Systems and 3Com.
A recent battery-related connectivity outage at an Internap (INAP) data center underscores the importance of battery maintenance and monitoring.
Denial of service expert Barrett Lyon has created a detailed network map of Twitter's architecture as part of his analysis of yesterday electronic attack on social networks.
Denial of service expert Barrett Lyon has created a detailed network map of Twitter's architecture as part of his analysis of yesterday electronic attack on social networks.
Today's denial of service (DOS) attack on Twitter is the latest in a series of attacks in 2009 that have targeted web hosts, domain registrars and now prominent social media sites.
The Planet experienced a power outage in one of its Dallas data centers this afternoon after a transfer switch failed during a utility outage.