Who fixes undersea cables when they break? A fascinating look at the specialized work of submarine operators who find and repair telecommunications cables.
DataChambers said this week that the Premier healthcare alliance has expanded its multi-year contract for disaster recovery and business continuity services in DataChambers' facility in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Media Temple will issue $100,000 in service credits to 3,000 of customers affected by a major outage of its (gs) Grid-Service hosting service. Some customers were offline for as long as 38 hours.
A demonstration of ISO-Base technology from WorkSafe Technologies, which sits under data center racks and allows them to shift during an earthquake, reducing damage.
The Obama administration's economic stimulus package includes approximately $3.4 billion in spending for IT projects, including $50 million dedicated to researching data center energy efficiency.
The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all of its user data was irretrievably lost in the Jan. 30 database crash that knocked the service offline.
SunGard Availability Services has opened a $25 million, 120,000 square foot data center in Philadelphia, giving it more than 350,000 square feet of space in three facilities in the city.
Just five of the 15 leading social networks managed uptime of 99.9 percent ("three 9s") or better, according to new data from Pingdom, which shows MySpace and Facebook among the leaders, and Twitter trailing the pack.