Twitter Leads Social Site Downtime / Popular microblogging service Twitter (twitter.com) has been determined as the "worst performing" social media website.
According to a recent report posted to website and server uptime monitoring service Pingdom's (pingdom.com) Twitter has been offline for more than 37 hours since January, twice as long as the outage total for the next worst performing website, Reunion.com. Pingdom says Twit ...
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HSBC Loses Customer Data Server / Financial institution HSBC (hsbc.com) admitted this week to losing a server containing transaction data on 159,000 account holders from its Hong Kong branch office.
In an official statement issued on Wednesday, the financial institution says it lost track of the server during renovation work at a Kwun Tong district branch on April 26. The company decided to keep this information under wraps f ...
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Digital Realty Trust Predicts Data Center Expansion / A study released this week confirmed what inexpert observation would seem to have been suggesting since the beginning of the year: we are entering a period of widespread expansion in the data center space.
Data center owner and operator Digital Realty Trust (digitalrealtytrust.com) released the findings of a survey it commissioned of senior decision makers at US corporations, indicating that ...
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Commtouch Adds Hong Kong Data Center / Messaging and web security solution provider Commtouch (commtouch.com) announced on Thursday that it has launched a new data center, or "detection center" as the company calls it in its recent press release, in Hong Kong.
This is Commtouch's fourth facility worldwide. The company has two data centers in the US and one in the UK.Commtouch says its "globally distributed detection centers proce ...
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Comcast Considers Capping Transfer / According to reports appearing on telecommunications message boards Wednesday, US telco giant Comcast (comcast.com) may be considering placing transfer limits on its Internet subscriber accounts.
The tactic, which the company also confirmed Wednesday it is considering, would seem to be the latest in a series of efforts by Comcast to ease the growing strain on its network caused, in particular ...
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Microsoft Facility to Hold 300K Servers / The first floor of Microsoft's (microsoft.com) new data center "container farm" in Chicago will be able to pack up to 300,000 servers, said a Microsoft executive at the Microsoft Management Summit last Friday in Las Vegas.
According to reports by Data Center Knowledge on Wednesday, Microsoft will be able to manage "extraordinarily dense server environments" by packing the 40-foot shipping c ...
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