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DVL's Local Data Center Users' Forum Held At Microsoft

by Mike Rinaldi on 10/10/11 4:03 PM

Every 3 to 4 months, DVL hosts a small Data Center Users' Forum. The mission of the DCUF is to provide a commercial free forum where members collaborate on relevant mission-critical issues, new technologies, customer testimonials, and best practices affecting reliability, availability, and lowest cost of operation.

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This week, the DCUF, which includes IT and facilities professionals from multiple industry types, discussed various topics including: aisle containment systems, bridging the gap between IT and Facilities, outsourcing vs. keeping everything in-house, showing how valuable technology is to the bottom line, how to prove ROI, audits, root cause analysis, the impact of government regulations on data centers, what's the cost of your company's reputation?, free cooling, natural disasters, and redundancy.

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Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, reduce cost, Data Center, cloud computing, DVL, Microsoft Technology Center, CRV

Bank of America Website Slow For A 5th Day (Data Center Outage?)

by Mike Rinaldi on 10/5/11 2:46 PM

Bank of America’s consumer online banking service was slow for a fifth day Tuesday, and the bank still wasn’t saying what the problem was.

It's one thing when a website like Target's goes down, as it did last month. But a Bank of America failure makes it harder for people to pay bills, access cash and track spending and can cost the company millions or billions of dollars.

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The bank said many times starting Friday that it had resolved the problem, but visitors to its home page still saw an error message for much of Tuesday saying the site was “running slowly” and customers might experience delays or have difficulty accessing parts of it. The message encouraged customers to try again at “a non-peak time” or visit an ATM or one of nearly 6,000 branches to get into their accounts. Bank of America Corp., based in Charlotte, N.C., is the largest U.S. bank by deposits and has 29 million online customers.

What first looked like a technological hiccup has turned into ongoing website issues for the bank. Some customers can't access their accounts, the bank is on the defensive and the stock price hit a new 52-week low Monday, closing down 9.6% to $5.53. The stock price has fallen below $6 for the first time since the financial crisis.

Learn More About Data Center Outages and How to Reduce Downtime and Costs in Your Organization

Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, reduce cost, Data Center, robust data center, reduce downtime, data center outages

Is Your Data Center Prepared For An Outage?

by Mike Rinaldi on 8/17/11 2:19 PM

Data Center Outages In The News

Lightning in Dublin Knocks Amazon, Microsoft Data Centers Offline

A lightning strike has caused power outages at the major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. The incident has caused downtime for many sites using Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform, as well as users of Microsoft’s BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite).

Amazon struggles to restore lost data to European cloud customers

Amazon is struggling to restore customer data lost because of an outage at a data center in Ireland, as developers grow increasingly frustrated over the inability to access applications they have built on top of Amazon's cloud service.

Is your organization prepared for a data center outage? Learn more from DVL/Emerson.

DVL Announces New Data Center Installation At The Microsoft Technology Center in Malvern, PA

"The challenge with this project was implementing an infrastructure design that would support constant and continuous IT equipment changes while providing a functioning model of a world-class data center." Read More Here

Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, reduce cost, robust data center, DVL, reduce downtime, data center outages

Data Center Outages Can Be Painful

by Mike Rinaldi on 7/29/11 10:57 AM

Part Two of National Report reveals costs of unplanned outages can add up to thousands of dollars in a matter of minutes

Data center downtime comes with a steep price tag, costing businesses more than $5,000 per minute according to a new Ponemon Institute study of U.S.-based data centers.

Highlights of the report include:

Average cost of data center downtime across industries was approximately $5,600 per minute.
The average reported incident length was 90 minutes, resulting in average cost per incident of approximately $505,500.
For a total data center outage, which had an average recovery time of 134 minutes, average costs were approximately $680,000.
For a partial data center outage, which averaged 59 minutes in length, average costs were approximately $258,000.

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Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, reduce cost, robust data center, DVL, reduce downtime, data center outages

DVL's Local Data Center Users' Forum Held At Microsoft

Bank of America Website Slow For A 5th Day (Data Center Outage?)

Is Your Data Center Prepared For An Outage?

Data Center Outages In The News

DVL Announces New Data Center Installation At The Microsoft Technology Center in Malvern, PA

Data Center Outages Can Be Painful

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