One Year After Hurricane Sandy, Lessons About Disaster Preparedness Nick Kolakowski, September 27, 2013 8 min read Hurricane Sandy devastated New York City. On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy pummeled the U.S. East Coast,...
Hurricane Season Coming: Prepare Your Datacenter Nick Kolakowski, August 5, 2013 4 min read It pays to be prepared. It’s August, and that means hurricane season for the U.S. East Coast is rapidly...
National Weather Service Upgrades Storm-Tracking Supercomputers Nick Kolakowski, July 31, 2013 2 min read The National Weather Service uses that hardware for projects such as the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting...
The Top Data Center Stories of 2012 Mark Hachman, December 26, 2012 5 min read The emergence of the cloud and cloud services has slowly shoved the data center into the spotlight, as more and...
How Peer1 Survived Sandy Mark Hachman, December 7, 2012 25 min read Buckets of fuel kept Peer1's servers up and operating as hurricane Sandy flooded lower Manhattan. When hurricane...
How IPR Survived Sandy Mark Hachman, November 19, 2012 11 min read At the end of October, Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern seaboard of the United States, leaving massive amounts of...
NYC Data Centers Weather Athena Just Fine Mark Hachman, November 9, 2012 6 min read An inflatable bed in a conference room: essential when you're trying to keep a data center up and running through...
How CoreSite Survived Sandy Mark Hachman, November 7, 2012 15 min read CoreSite's facility on Avenue of the Americas When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, the combination of high...
NYC Data Centers Are Normal, Work Continues on Verizon Network Mark Hachman, November 5, 2012 10 min read Days after Hurricane Sandy, things are almost back to normal among the affected data centers in New York City. But...
NYC Data Centers Should Get Power Saturday Mark Hachman, November 2, 2012 13 min read ConEd outage update. The local utility serving most of the New York City area, Con Edison, reported that it should...