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During a recent Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), Microsoft founder Bill Gates was asked by Reddit user IT_guys_rule: “If you could create a new IP and business with Elon Musk, what would you make happen?” Gates responded with: “We need […]

If you thought the data center industry was filled with sea-fearing landlubbers—think again.Have you ever thought how data is transferred between two spots separated by an ocean or two? No, it’s not fancy satellites and laser beams that transmits data […]

During the American Industrial Revolution factories all over the country sprung up delivering new and innovative products worldwide. This lead to new distribution and marketing methods unlike anything ever seen before. Fast-forward to today and new products, distributions, and marketing […]

Running a data center is not easy. Agility, efficiency, and stability reign supreme. If you cannot deliver these elements, your platform will suffer. Naturally, there’s a rate of failure to contend with because data centers rely on hardware, and hardware can fail at […]

The average unplanned data center outage costs nearly $9,000/minute according to the most recent Emerson Network Power Study.* However, the damages caused by a fire don’t end after just a few minutes of downtime. A fire in a data center […]

RAID stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” (or, if you’re feeling cheeky, “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks”). In a RAID array, multiple hard drives combine to form a single storage volume with no apparent seams or gaps (although, of […]

For most companies, cyber security has always been about keeping criminals out of their data centers with the best firewalls money could afford. Firewalls are great, they can keep most of the criminals out, but not all of them. It’s […]

As summer approaches and many cringe while opening their electric bills, we thought it would be appropriate to showcase the power-saving stars of our industry—the world’s greenest data centers. From Iceland to Washington to Australia, the need to make our […]