Data Center Knowledge – Batteries have emerged as significant contributors in several recent data center outages, underscoring the need to monitor and maintain battery banks. Heres a recap: Battery failure was cited as the root cause of a May 23 outage at HostDime and Surpass Hosting. The diagnosis conducted revealed… read more

9 to 5 Mac –  Buried beneath the hype surrounding iPhone and Apples growing Mac market share, the company still offers server-grade solutions that are making some dent in the high-end research markets – and now one of the companys early champions is adding another Apple server farm to the collection.
Virginia Tech has deployed a new 29-teraflop Mac supercomputing cluster thats based [...] read more

Data Center Knowledge – Microsofts James Hamilton has been collecting scaling stories for a while, and has shared a list of resources providing insider accounts of how the Web’s largest sites have managed their scalability challenges. The post focuses on Flickrs database architecture, but also provides links to similar [...] read more