The bigger the outage, the greater the need for explanations and, most importantly, for taking steps to avoid a repeat. By any standards, the outage
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Vertiv’s DCIM ambitions wither on Trellis’ demise
Operators often say that data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software is a necessary evil. Modern facilities need centralized, real-time management and analytics, but DCIM is
Startups brew new chemistries for fresh battery types
Through their public commitments to net-zero carbon emission targets, cloud providers have re-energized talks of a major redesign of critical power systems within the data
Eyeing an uptick in edge data center demand
Edge data centers are generally small data center facilities — designed for IT workloads up to a few hundred kilowatts — that process data closer to
Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk
A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down thousands of websites in different countries, including big names, such as Amazon, Twitter and Spotify,
Data center insecurity: Online exposure threatens critical systems
In early March 2021, a hacker group publicly exposed the username and password of an administrative account of a security camera vendor. The credentials enabled
Datacenter Fire Frequency
The catastrophic fire that occurred at OVHcloud’s SBG2 data center in Strasbourg, France (see last week’s blog about it) has led many operators to question their
Learning from the OVHcloud data center fire
The fire that destroyed a data center (and damaged others) at the OVHcloud facility in Strasbourg, France, on March 10-11, 2021, has raised a multitude
How data center operators can transition to renewable energy
UI @ 2021 Transitioning to renewable energy use is an important, but not easily achieved, goal. Although the past decade has seen significant improvements in
Extreme weather affects nearly half of data centers
Recent extreme weather-related events in the US (the big freeze in Texas, fires on the west coast) have once again highlighted the need for data