UK networks need to be more resilient in the face of increasingly frequent outages
Outages will happen again, but carriers need to be prepared
Industry Views - Outages
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Ignore Li-ion fire risks at your peril
Li-ion batteries have many benefits but may have been adopted without sufficient risk analysis
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Data center uptime requires substation redundancy
Can utility providers give data center operators more information about their substations?
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Are high-power workloads pushing data centers to breaking point?
When data centers break, popular cloud services and apps follow
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OVHcloud's fire, and other unanswered questions
There are still plenty of unknowns to find out
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Mainframes on the move
Most mainframe cloud migrations fail - but generative AI could help with a more sensible approach
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Changing our perspectives on the impact of planned downtime
Planned downtime isn't as expensive as you might think
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A poor argument in court won't help your recovery from disaster
Like Boris Johnson, OVHcloud has used a defense which makes it look incompetent
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Plan ahead and say goodbye to service outages for good
Take arms against a sea of trouble tickets
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How data centers can keep their cool while the world heats up
Extreme weather is going to be on the increase .You need to be prepared
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Forecasting the solar storm threat
The US has plans for a network of electromagnetic monitoring stations to predict geomagnetic disturbances
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The FAA's NOTAM flight outage: complexity is the enemy
Wednesday's flight chaos should focus attention on existing criticism of the system
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Top executives are ignoring the benefits of testing
Negligent attitudes towards testing from CEOs leave manufacturers at risk of costly downtime
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Kakao's fate should be a lesson to OVHcloud
In South Korea, a data center fire led to government intervention. In France, just silence
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When cooling systems burn
As the climate warms, and facilities attempt to minimize cooling for efficiency reasons, we could see a trend for cooling systems failures
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Data centers weather solar storms
Geomagnetic storms can cause disruption and damage, yet few assess the risk or implement protections
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The data center cooling crisis
Why we need to rethink our approach
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Leaders, do you know what your data center tier means?
And can you trust what your business partners say?
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How data centers can prepare for hurricane season
Hurricane season is upon us, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts an unusually busy one in 2022
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Reduce downtime with the cloud
How to guard your enterprise against cloud outages
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OVHcloud fire - is the damp inverter the smoking gun?
We may never know what happened on March 10 2021, when SBG2 went up in flames
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The shock waves from Ukraine
The Ukraine conflict and associated political and economic fallout will have short- and long-term effects on the infrastructure industry
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OVHcloud's data center fire: One year on, what do we know?
Secrecy is no surprise in this industry
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Concerns over cloud concentration risk grow
More data center managers would consider moving mission-critical workloads to a public cloud provider if visibility of operational resiliency improved
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Protecting your data from natural disasters
How to prepare for the unthinkable
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Routing security lies in the hands of tier 2 ISPs
The RPKI model works at its best when as many players as possible are involved
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Is disaster recovery a good business investment?
Consider the costs - of both outages, and mitigation
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Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage
Facebook’s hours long outage on October 4th snarled completely unrelated applications globally, underscoring the criticality — and fragility — of publicly shared digital infrastructure