Every piece of computer and technological equipment in use today requires a power source that is guaranteed to keep it powered at all times. There are many places where these power sources must be used to make sure that the items they are powering are going to remain operational regardless of what is going on with the power in the building where they are housed. It can be dangerous for many of…
RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a way of storing the same data in different places on multiple hard disks. By placing data on multiple disks, I/O (input/output) operations can overlap in a balanced way, improving performance. Since multiple disks increases the mean time between failures, storing data redundantly also increases fault tolerance. There are several different levels of…
Data centers are the heart that keep businesses running. While the computing revolution shifts from PC to server-side, many companies are shifting from hardware services to software and services based enterprises. This places the data center is a main part of the future of business. Every business or organization has its own data center or outsources data center services to a third party. How can…
Wikileaks’ servers have been moved to the “Pionen†White Mountains data center owned by Swedish broadband provider Bahnhof. This is one of the most secure datacenters in the world as it is housed in a bunker 30 meters underground in solid bedrock. The center is effectively bomb-proof.
This data center will store Wikileaks’ data 30 meters below ground inside a…