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Hasty Divorce for Twitter, Joyent
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on January 30, 2008
It seems Twitter wasn't being forthright about its relationship with Joyent. Just hours after publishing a tribute to its "trusty infrastructure provider," Twitter has ceased using Joyent. Here's the update from Joyent CEO David Young:Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night....Read more at our web site
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Web Outages and Damage Control 2.0
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on January 22, 2008
Web site outages have never been more public. When a site or service goes down, companies are using blogs to rapidly update their users about what happened and why. The inevitable finger-pointing takes place in real time, and within a matter of minutes, a server failure can generate a headline on...Read more at our web site
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Cable Cuts, Coincidences and Conspiracies
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on February 03, 2008
When two submarine telecom cables in the Mediterranean were cut last Wednesday, the outage was attributed to a ship anchor that severed the cables. When a third cable cut in the region was reported on Friday, it raised suspicions that there might be more to the outages than coincidence."I'm a...Read more at our web site
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Failure Rates in Google Data Centers
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
Shared by Pat more insights into the giantGoogle fellow Jeff Dean offered an overview of Google's data center operations in this week's Google I/O conference for developers. News.com has an overview of Dean's presentation, most of which revisited general information that is already public and is summarized in our Google Data Center FAQ....Read more at our web site
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APC Launches Data Center Planning Tools
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on May 30, 2008
Shared by Eater Oh great, now I'm out of a job. Damn you, APC.APC today introduced TradeOff Tools, a group of web-based applications that allow data center professionals to experiment with numerous "what if" scenarios for virtualization, efficiency, power sizing, and other key design issues. The Flash-based tools let managers model different approaches and...Read more at our web site
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Jobs' MacWorld Keynote Silences Twitter
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on January 14, 2008
What do you get when you combine the Internet traffic tsunami of a Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote with the uptime track record of Twitter? Not much Twittering, that's for sure. Bloggers who wanted to track the keynote commentary on Twitter found the service was unusable, hopelessly clogged by...Read more at our web site
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Speed Cabling: We Have A Winner!
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on February 12, 2008
The speed cabling competitiont last week in Los Angeles has gotten lots of linkage around the web. The BBC has followed up with a recap of the event, which was won by web developer Matthew Howell using a technique known as "fierce data cloud." An excerpt:Explaining his detangling technique,...Read more at our web site
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Major Outage for Amazon S3 and EC2
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
Many users of Amazon's utility computing platform report that their services are inaccessible this morning. The outage is having a ripple effect on many sites using Amazon to store images (such as Twitter) or widgets. Users are reporting issues with errors on both the S3 and EC2 services, and at...Read more at our web site
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Google Files Patent on UPS Architecture
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
A group of engineers from Google have applied for a patent on a highly efficient server-level power supply that integrates a battery, allowing it to function as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). The design effectively shifts the UPS and battery backup functions from the data center into the...Read more at our web site
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Sun Preps Cloud Platform to Vie With Amazon
via Data Center Knowledge by (author unknown) on February 18, 2008
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) is preparing a new utility computing platform designed to compete directly with Amazon's S3 and EC2 services. The new service is code-named Project Caroline, and will be formally unveiled at the JavaOne conference in May, according to The Register. Sun appears to be...Read more at our web site
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