Servers & Data Center

Usenet.com has lost its copyright lawsuit vs. the RIAA over MP3 filesharing. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate the latest battle in the copyright war and the legal nicities of the Betamax Defense.

By Richi Jennings: your humble blogwatcher, who selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention how we used to play games on phones...

In September 2008, the London Stock Exchange collapsed because its Windows-based electronic trading platform, TradElect completely failed. Now, under new leadership, the Exchange will finally do away with its fatally flawed Windows system.

If you want to use Ubuntu Linux serveea, and the idea of saving money by running your servers on a cloud sounds interesting, boy does Canonical have a deal for you.

Michael Jackson, Facebook, Twitter, and PerezHilton.com all died Thursday: may they rest in peace. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers shed a tear for the king of pop, the Fail Whale, and Web reliability.

By Richi Jennings -- your humble blogwatcher -- who selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention Joe Biden sings!..

Pilot fish is asked to write a script to keep an eye on a server at a remote site to make sure it's up and operational. The code says the server is down -- but management insists it's up and running.

An upstart start-up wants to change the way you keep the heat off your data center.

This state university is in the process of a major data center software change. But the hard part isn't the technology -- it's getting upper management to approve the vendors.

What do Bill Gates' efforts to preserve the Bettman Collection have in common with good data center design? It's all about thermodynamics.

The WHO will shortly declare swine H1 a true pandemic. Fortunately, the disease is still mild enough to allow for preparation, planning and a LOT of serious thinking.

It's just become easier than ever both to run your own Ubuntu servers on the cloud, and to manage them, and any other Ubuntu systems you happen to have, as well.

Pilot fish and his team are called upon to investigate a large computer that's running slowly. The solution: A script to catch and kill abandoned sessions on the big machine. At least, that's the plan.

It's IT Blogwatch, and Google disappeared for some users for a while yesterday. Cue widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Yesterday, la GOOG messed up its network routing, causing a bit of an outage. Richi Jennings watches bloggers blame hackers, AT&T, and even Cthulhu. Not to mention Star Wars meets MacGuyver, Airwolf, Dallas...

For about an hour this morning, 14% of Google users experienced sluggish Google services throughout the US. It was later revealed that Google's own routers had pushed the traffic through its busy Asian servers, which couldn't handle the load. That doesn't mean you should scrap your SaaS plan.

Users from around the U.S. and the world are all reporting that Google, and its related services, are moving at snail-like speed.

These tools are designed to help you and your IT shop plan for an influenza pandemic, and to familiarize yourself with the history of influenza in easy-to-understand terms.