data center
 |
Will the Instagration Phenomenon Make Private Clouds More Popular? Facebook recently achieved something dramatic with Instagram's infrastructure. Without 200 million users noticing, Facebook moved about 20 billion photos from Amazon's EC2 infrastructure to Facebook's own data center. Facebook refers to this phenomenon as Instagration. |
|
 |
IT’s Conflicting Goals: The Data Center vs. Software Development Conflicting goals within IT are in many ways a very good thing. If managed correctly, positive conflict can create motivated employees, innovative solutions, and cost-effective, high-quality results. Eric Bloom looks at the conflicting goals of the data center versus software development. |
|
 |
Under the Kimono—Cloud Data Center Security Do you really trust that your cloud service provider is adequately protecting your data? An astonishing 94 percent of all compromised data involved servers, and most public cloud infrastructure providers offer customers little or no insight into their underlying data center security practices. |
|
 |
Prices Drop as Cloud Storage Wars Heat Up Amazon and Google are racing to grab cloud customers, and headlines, in the great cloud war. By consistently lowering prices and offering advanced services, both giants want nothing more than to be the world's cloud storage leader. But is either of them making a profit? |
|
 |
Superstorm Sandy Uncovers the Downside of Cloud Computing While one can argue all day whether Superstorm Sandy was caused by global climate change or not, there is little doubt that the storm again uncovered the lack of real high availability for most online companies and supposedly outage-proof cloud systems. |
|
 |
Are Data Centers Harming the Environment? Since The New York Times’s explosive piece on data centers and their apparent harmful effects on the environment came out, members of the tech media and industry have voiced their concerns about what the article got wrong. |
|
 |
Making the Environment Pay for the Internet The world's largest companies have built massive data centers that use—and waste—an unbelievable amount of electricity. What steps are being taken to reduce the energy usage of these companies without disrupting the constant service that we've all come to rely on? |
