CRITICAL redundancy theory is built on a simple but powerful premise: systems become stronger, safer, and more resilient when their most essential functions are supported by intentional back-ups, ...

Most enterprises bring all their redundant data to the cloud, along with the security risk such redundancy creates. Here’s how to fix it When you move, you have a few choices of what to do with all ...

Database company Basho has upgraded its Riak Cloud Storage technology to have multi-datacentre replication, giving wannabe cloud providers a tool for storing data across the world. The update was ...

When Uptime Institute recently asked over 300 data center managers how the pandemic would change their operations, one answer stood out: Two-thirds expect to increase the resiliency of their core data ...

We currently have two data centers, one which houses a SharePoint Services 3.0 server on server 2003 via the windows internal database (I forget if that's the exact name). Anyhow, we'd like to have ...

Google is playing catch-up in the cloud, and as such it wants to provide flexibility to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft. Today, the company announced a couple of new options to help ...

Elsewhere, I have argued that despite all the buzz about micro-data centers at the base of cell towers, the first place “The Edge” will most likely materialize is inside traditional data centers ...

The proliferation of AI dramatically increases the amount of data that needs to be processed, stored, and moved, accelerating the aging of signal paths through which that data travels and forcing ...