| Phoenix-Tucson Area On The DOE Concern List | |
The congestion study identifies three types of congestion areas. "Critical Congestion Areas" include Southern California and the Atlantic coastal area from the New York City area to northern Virgina. "Congestion Areas of Concern" acknowledges four areas that need further study to determine the magnitude of their congestion problems, including New England, the Phoenix-Tucson area, the Seattle-Portland area, and the San Francisco Bay area. |
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| Brief L.A. Blackout Fells More Nets Than Hurricane Katrina | |
Brief L.A. Blackout Fells More Nets Than Hurricane Katrina. "Los Angeles is a much more network-dense place than the Gulf Coast," said Todd Underwood, the director of operations for Renesys, a Manchester, New Hampshire-based firm that monitors Internet routing traffic. "Up to 301 networks were outaged during the [power blackout] event." |
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| Additional Details on Rackspace Outages | |
| Rackspace has shared additional details about the outages Monday at its Dallas data center, which knocked many popular Web sites offline for about three hours. There were actually two separate incidents causing customer downtime at the Dallas facility, according to Rackspace, which said it had been "a long and hard Monday." The second outage illustrates the challenges created by rising data center heat loads during a temporary loss of cooling. Rackspace indicated that affected customers will likely receive account credits for the downtime. |
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| Masked thieves storm into Chicago colocation (again!) | |
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Think your data's secure. What about your data center?
The recent armed robbery of a Chicago-based co-location facility has customers hopping mad after learning it was at least the fourth forced intrusion in two years. They want to know how C I Host, an operator that vaunts the security of its data centers, could allow the same one to be penetrated so many times. |
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| Central U.S. Warned of Larger Earthquakes to Come | |
A moderate earthquake that rattled parts of Arkansas and Tennessee Thursday should serve as a wake-up call to the central United States about the potential for much stronger events, experts said. |
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