In South Korea, a data center fire led to government intervention. In France, just silence

As the climate warms, and facilities attempt to minimize cooling for efficiency reasons, we could see a trend for cooling systems failures

Why we need to rethink our approach

How to guard your enterprise against cloud outages

We may never know what happened on March 10 2021, when SBG2 went up in flames

More data center managers would consider moving mission-critical workloads to a public cloud provider if visibility of operational resiliency improved

Dealing with the actual destruction is just the first step...

Just because it's unlikely doesn't mean it won't happen

Power problems are no longer the top cause of outages

As many of us continue to work remotely, outages have become more frequent and more acute

Although the system is resilient, there have been some alarming staff shortages

We've heard that outages are getting more serious. But why are they also getting longer?

A simple error can dramatically alter the service delivery landscape in the Internet

Linking data center failures to organizational dysfunction and a lack of diversity

It's a nice soundbite, but customers are better off looking at the real risks

When a service goes down, the impact can vary from disastrous to so-what

We have two uptime ‘metrics,’ somewhat interlinked and both abused

You must know at any given time what energy is being used, where and by which devices

There’s nothing for you beyond the firewall

The biggest lesson from the meltdown at British Airways is this: don’t have a single point of failure

An essential but complex guide to lightning protection for data centers

You can’t protect infrastructure from sharp teeth and long claws

Research and development shown at DCD’s Zettastructure event could stop fire suppression systems breaking data centers

Outages will hurt your business - and the solutions don’t always live up to expectations