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
Servers/Data CentersData Center Knowledge – Cloudbursting: An application hosting model which combines existing corporate infrastructure with new, cloud-based infrastructure to create a powerful, highly scalable application hosting environment. [...] read more
Richi Jennings – Updated with more commentary 4.16pm UTC. Hello Techmeme. Suddenly, things are getting interesting again in the Exchange-alternatives market.The quintessential growth-by-acquisition specialist, Cisco has just announced that [...] read more
4sysops – For Windows Administrators – When it comes to cloud computing, most people think about hosted applications running somewhere in a big data center. Only time can tell if this kind of cloud computing will gain acceptance. It seems to me that things develop very slowly here. But what about renting a complete server in the cloud? Meanwhile, most big [...] read more
