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,
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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
Extreme cold — a neglected threat to availability?
UI 2021 In Uptime Institute’s recent report on preparing for the extreme effects of climate change, there were over a dozen references to the dangers
Network problems causing ever more outages
UI 2021 Power failures have always been one of the top causes of serious IT service outages. The loss of power to a data center
Data center staff on-site: engineering specialists or generalists?
The pandemic has led to a renewed interest by data center managers in remote monitoring, management and automation. Uptime Institute has fielded dozens of inquiries
Ensuring physical security in uncertain times
Ui 2021 Recent events have heightened concerns around physical security for many data center operators, and with good reason: the pandemic means many data centers