What can we learn from Facebook’s outage?
What is DNS and what can it teach us about the recent Facebook outage? Ronan David, VP Business Development and Marketing at EfficientIP, tells us more.
What is DNS and what can it teach us about the recent Facebook outage? Ronan David, VP Business Development and Marketing at EfficientIP, tells us more.
Facebook has said that a routine maintenance error caused the disruption to its services earlier this week, “effectively disconnecting Facebook data centres globally.” The outage, which lasted more than five hours and affected Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, occurred after day-to-day infrastructure maintenance
Absolutely nothing, unless you class establishing supremacy as a good thing? This week, I am referring to the current tech war raging on between Facebook and Apple, two tech titans whose models are both as dodgy as each other. On the one
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Facebook has agreed to halt construction work at its Clonee, Ireland data centre, which was in the midst of a major expansion.
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Commercial air conditioner supplier Daikin explores how the world’s largest data centres keep their cool.
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