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  • The reliable data center, BlackBerry and the failure bandwagon.
    • Well, here we go again. Apparently, RIM has managed to barf the Blackberry Internet Service yet again (disclaimer, I’m writing this from my Curve). I’m fortunate enough to be using BOLT web browser and Twibble, so the only real things affecting me are email and Yahoo Messenger loss. This most recent of high profile outages leaves me wondering about the state of data center operations t

  • The reliable data center, maintenance gone wild.
    • I’ve just been reading about how the recent Rackspace data center network failure had limited impact and more of the details on this. Just another poorly planned, poorly executed, and poorly responded to botched maintenance operation. It seems like at least half of the major data center and cloud outages this year have been the result of error during maintenance procedures or unnecessarily r

  • Friday data center tidbits.
    • The talk of the town today is Google’s new Public DNS service. I can’t believe this is going to be much of an improvement over a well configured local DNS server. Call me a cynic, but I can’t believe Google will resist the temptation to screw with DNS results for their own profit. Deep 6 this turkey. This morning I also see a story about VEPA, a new virtual switch standard for vi

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