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Use a Data Center in Irma’s Path? Here’s How Not to Lose Your Data

You can’t predict a data center outage, but you can prevent one from killing your apps or causing you to lose data. Continue reading

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Hurricane Harvey: Delivering Managed IT Services During a Catastrophe

It’s being described as a “500-year storm,” and Houston, Texas-based Elevated Technologies is among the MSPs who find themselves smack in the middle of it. Continue reading

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Four Providers’ Houston Data Centers Online, but Access Roads Flooded

Equinix, CyrusOne, Data Foundry, and Digital Realty Trust data centers in Houston have not lost utility power. Continue reading

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Report: Massive Internet Disruption Costing Somalia $10M a Day

An extended internet outage in Somalia is being called a “major disaster” to the war-torn country’s economy. Continue reading

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Switch Backs Away from Uptime’s Tiers, Pushes Own Data Center Standard

The “standard” is proprietary, Switch said in a statement, but the company is planning to launch a non-profit organization that will control Tier 5 and the way data center operators use it, Continue reading

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