Uptime

Flood of Day Traders Strains Online Brokers and the Backlash Is Swift

Flood of Day Traders Strains Online Brokers and the Backlash Is Swift Flood of Day Traders Strains Online Brokers and the Backlash Is Swift

The hardware failure at Equinix's NY5 data center in New Jersey is just the latest example of online brokerage outages caused by a sharp increase in small stock orders.

Dec 9, 2020

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4 Min Read

datacenter destroyed by tornado

How Western Express Recovered After a Tornado Wiped Out Its Data Center How Western Express Recovered After a Tornado Wiped Out Its Data Center

byChristine Hall

Nov 16, 2020

6 Min Read

How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market

How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market

Oct 2, 2020

6 Min Read

A view of St. Peter Port in Guernsey

Guernsey Island Faces Down the Pandemic with New Data Centers Guernsey Island Faces Down the Pandemic with New Data Centers

byScott Fulton III

Sep 23, 2020

10 Min Read

Nasdaq building in Times Square

The Pandemic Gives Nasdaq’s Move to the Cloud a New Sense of Urgency The Pandemic Gives Nasdaq’s Move to the Cloud a New Sense of Urgency

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Sep 17, 2020

2 Min Read

Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

A New York Hospital ‘Pivoted’ for COVID-19; IT Had to Keep Up A New York Hospital ‘Pivoted’ for COVID-19; IT Had to Keep Up

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Sep 9, 2020

4 Min Read

A Marsden, England, regional council employee works from home as her children study in March 2020.

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: September 4, 2020

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: September 4, 2020

byData Center Knowledge

A Marsden, England, regional council employee works from home as her children study in March 2020.

Hybrid Cloud Proves a Winning Strategy for BlueJeans in the Pandemic

Hybrid Cloud Proves a Winning Strategy for BlueJeans in the Pandemic

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Citibank headquarters, New York City, 2012

Citi’s $900 Million Misfire Happened During Software Switch

Citi’s $900 Million Misfire Happened During Software Switch

Achieving Eight 9s as the World Goes Digital

Achieving Eight 9s as the World Goes Digital

Achieving Eight 9s as the World Goes Digital

byData Center Knowledge

COVID-19

How the Pandemic Has Forced a New Normal in the Data Center

How the Pandemic Has Forced a New Normal in the Data Center

byData Center Knowledge

A staff member works among the racks and network switches in the data center of LightEdge Solutions in Altoona, Iowa.

Resilience in a Pandemic: Smaller Data Center Providers Hang On, Hold Fast

Resilience in a Pandemic: Smaller Data Center Providers Hang On, Hold Fast

byScott Fulton III

Blade server install

UK Emergency Planners' Data Center Risk Info Gathering Is Slow Going

UK Emergency Planners' Data Center Risk Info Gathering Is Slow Going

A CoreSite engineer testing a cross-connect for acceptable light loss at the company’s data center in Chicago.

Essential Workers: Keeping Data Centers Running During the Pandemic update from May 2020

Essential Workers: Keeping Data Centers Running During the Pandemic update from May 2020

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Cooling infrastructure at Sabey's Intergate.Manhattan data center in New York City

‘Freeze Time:’ How Long Can Data Center Supply Chains Hold Out?

‘Freeze Time:’ How Long Can Data Center Supply Chains Hold Out?

byScott Fulton III

An Uber Eats driver picks up a food orders to be delivered at a McDonald's fast food restaurant on March 22, 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Pandemic Tests the Limits of Internet Infrastructure Supply Chains

The Pandemic Tests the Limits of Internet Infrastructure Supply Chains

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Network cables at a data center of DE-CIX (Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange) in Frankfurt (2018)

The Pandemic Puts the Internet’s Resiliency – and Fragility – On Display

The Pandemic Puts the Internet’s Resiliency – and Fragility – On Display

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Network switch

Data Center Providers Adjust to Doing Business Remotely

Data Center Providers Adjust to Doing Business Remotely

byMaria Korolov

SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on April 2, 2020.

SBA Computers Crash in Fresh Blow to Companies Seeking Virus Aid

SBA Computers Crash in Fresh Blow to Companies Seeking Virus Aid

Data Center Interconnection Platforms Pitch in to Help IT Scale During the Crisis

Data Center Interconnection Platforms Pitch in to Help IT Scale During the Crisis

Data Center Interconnection Platforms Pitch in to Help IT Scale During the Crisis

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Colo Customers Lean on Remote Data Center Management Tools Amid the Pandemic

Colo Customers Lean on Remote Data Center Management Tools Amid the Pandemic

Colo Customers Lean on Remote Data Center Management Tools Amid the Pandemic

byMaria Korolov

10 Tools for Providing 24/7 IT Support to Remote Workers

10 Tools for Providing 24/7 IT Support to Remote Workers

10 Tools for Providing 24/7 IT Support to Remote Workers

Stress Test: The Data Center Industry and the Pandemic

Stress Test: The Data Center Industry and the Pandemic

Stress Test: The Data Center Industry and the Pandemic

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Global Switch 2 data center in London's Canary Wharf (2009)

UK Data Centers Plead for Critical Status for Contractors as Coronavirus Takes Hold

UK Data Centers Plead for Critical Status for Contractors as Coronavirus Takes Hold

A Movistar service center in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2017

Hard-Knock Life Gets Harder in Venezuela With Internet Near Bust

Hard-Knock Life Gets Harder in Venezuela With Internet Near Bust

How Zoom, Netflix, and Dropbox are Staying Online During the Pandemic

How Zoom, Netflix, and Dropbox are Staying Online During the Pandemic

How Zoom, Netflix, and Dropbox are Staying Online During the Pandemic

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

google data center network room council bluffs

YouTube to Limit Video Quality Around the World for a Month

YouTube to Limit Video Quality Around the World for a Month

How IT Pros Can Pivot to Support Remote Working

How IT Pros Can Pivot to Support Remote Working

How IT Pros Can Pivot to Support Remote Working

byLisa Schmeiser

An Indian man works at a call center of TravelKhana in Noida.

World’s Back Office Scrambles to Stay Online as India Locks Down

World’s Back Office Scrambles to Stay Online as India Locks Down

Telecom Italia tower at the company's headquarters in Rozzano

Internet Traffic is Surging But The Pipes Aren’t Bursting Yet

Internet Traffic is Surging But The Pipes Aren’t Bursting Yet

Data center worker

Data Center Operators Cut Onsite Staff and Visitors, Postpone Projects

Data Center Operators Cut Onsite Staff and Visitors, Postpone Projects

byMaria Korolov

10 Considerations for Choosing the Right DaaS Solution

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10 Considerations for Choosing the Right DaaS Solution

10 Considerations for Choosing the Right DaaS Solution

byIndustry Voice by Nutanix, John Williamson

Cloudflare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince

Will the Coronavirus Break the Internet? Highly Unlikely, Says Cloudflare

Will the Coronavirus Break the Internet? Highly Unlikely, Says Cloudflare

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Solo PDU

The Benefits of Easy to Use PDUs update from January 2020

The Benefits of Easy to Use PDUs update from January 2020

byData Center Knowledge

A sign of Mexican bank Banorte is seen on a building in Mexico City on December 3, 2018.

Mexico Commerce Upended With Part of Banking System Offline

Mexico Commerce Upended With Part of Banking System Offline

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