Facebook improves connectivity in the African region with an undersea internet cable
As part of a plan to develop the Internet infrastructure, Facebook with its regional and global partners announced the laying of a new segment of the 2Africa Pearls submarine cable, which will connect three continents - Europe, Asia and Africa. Thanks to the new segment, the 2Africa cable system will be more than 45 thousand kilometers long - along with the Pacific Southern Cross, it will become o..
Can blind spots be avoided when monitoring DCs?
A recent IDC report found that data center operators are currently facing three major challenges: reduced performance, downtime, and low bandwidth. Therefore, with the growing demand for data center services, it is more important than ever that operators can avoid blind spots that lead to business and reputational risk. So how can data center managers mitigate these risks? There are three major pi..
Influence of automation in DC on engineering personnel
According to the Uptime Institute's Data Center Industry Survey 2021, there is still a shortage of skilled workers in the industry, and artificial intelligence is not expected to help solve this problem in the near future. As the demand for digital skills grows, the scarcity is becoming more acute. In addition, today's data center teams increasingly require both operational and development skills...
The frequency of accidents in DC has decreased and the sum of damage has increased significantly
Data from the Uptime Institute's annual survey of data center disruptions and their causes shows fewer serious disruptions. Only 6 percent of respondents reported serious incidents (“Category 5”) in 2020. A year earlier, such accidents were reported by 11 percent of those surveyed. Interestingly, against the background of a decrease in the number of major accidents in data centers, financial and r..
The rise in popularity of IPv6 has not caught up with the size of the critical mass to concur with I..
According to analysts' forecasts, tens of billions of IoT devices will work in the world in the near future. The old IPv4-based addressing system, which was more or less capable of providing IP addresses to the “Internet of people”, is practically useless in the era of the coming “Internet of machines”. A new protocol, IPv6, aims to solve the problem. What does IPv6 give? The documents defining t..
Cases of accidents in DCs in 2021
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, interruptions in the operation of broadband Internet and data centers are especially acute for ordinary users, government agencies and businesses. High-speed internet has been a lockdown lifesaver for millions of office workers, students, healthcare professionals and others who are increasingly using broadband for telecommuting / learning. In Oakland, a data center s..
