Tag: Data centers

Arista Networks

Arista Networks: networking for big data centers

Arista Networks develops networking solutions for big data centers and high-performance environments. Stackscale relies on Arista’s solutions, as they provide 10 to 100 Gigabits Ethernet switches that redefine network architectures and improve performance. What is Arista Networks? Arista Networks is a networking equipment company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. It was founded in 2004

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Geographical redundancy or georedundancy

Georedundancy: building a stronger business continuity strategy

Georedundancy or geographical redundancy allows companies to increase availability, resilience and fault tolerance. Relying on geographically distributed data centers contributes to building a stronger business continuity strategy. It is also referred to as “geo-replication” or “geographical replication”. What is georedundancy? Georedundancy consists in replicating data and IT infrastructure in multiple remote data centers. Its goal

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Energy efficiency measures in data centers

How do data centers improve energy efficiency?

Energy efficiency is essential for building sustainable solutions and ensuring long-term sustainable growth. Maximizing the benefits of technology while reducing its impact on the planet is one of the main challenges of data centers nowadays. Data centers require a vast amount of energy to keep running. Therefore, energy efficiency is a priority, not only in

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what's a data center or Internet datacenter

What is a Data Center?

A Data Center or Internet Data Center is a facility where an organization or a service provider centralizes their necessary computing resources. You might have heard about it a lot lately, since the term Data Center has become very common. Nowadays, most of the data we manage — from mobile phones, tablets and computers — ends up stored in these Data Centers. Actually, many people refer to Data Centers as the Cloud, in a more generic way.

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Hyperconverged infrastructure or HCI

Hyperconvergence & Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

Hyperconvergence is an IT infrastructure aiming to reduce data center complexity. It does so by combining computing, storage and networking capabilities in a single system. In addition to reducing complexity, it allows to increase scalability, flexibility and IT efficiency. Hyperconvergence helps reduce costs while ensuring the necessary availability, reliability and performance. Hyperconverged systems act as

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Fire safety in data centers

Data center fires: risk assessment, fire safety and DR planning

Data center fires are rare but they are also a good example of how important Disaster Recovery planning is. Most fires in data centers are quickly located at the source, allowing the equipment to be isolated and the damage contained to a small area. But their impact can be catastrophic if they are not quickly

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Stackscale's new data centers and cloud services

New data centers and cloud services in Amsterdam and Madrid

After launching our new server line in Q4-2020, we are happy to announce we have also expanded our infrastructure to new state-of-the-art data centers in the Netherlands and Spain. By expanding our data centers network, we have also added new products and services, and improved some of the existing services. Since Q1-2021 we have two

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Business continuity in data centers during crisis situations

Key aspects for ensuring business continuity in data centers

Events like the heavy snowfall provoked by Storm Filomena in Madrid last January or the coronavirus pandemic we are facing have highlighted the importance of business continuity. Contingency and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning is simply essential for critical infrastructures like data centers, but not only. In the digital economy, DR planning has become indispensable for

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Interxion data center management during the heavy snowfall in Madrid in January, 2021

Data center management & severe weather conditions

Data center management is always essential; especially when severe weather conditions — such as the heavy snowfall Filomena provoked in Madrid almost two weeks ago — increase the level of risk of suffering a disruption. Why? Because a lot of businesses rely on them to host their mission-critical applications. Data centers are a key part

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