Tag: internet exchange

  • I'm joining RedMonk!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been working as a Social Media consultant in Ireland for around four years now and director of the Cork Internet eXchange data center for the last two years. However with my imminent move to Spain in July, I will lose 90% of the revenue from these streams. I can’t reproduce those streams in…

  • CIX open day

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    Tom Raftery
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    Cork Internet eXchange (aka CIX) are having an Open Day on the morning of November 29th at 10am. This will be your final opportunity to have a gander around the innards of a data centre in the making. After the 29th, ducts will be closed and off-limits areas will be off-limits! If you are interested…

  • US Data Center chillers not backed up by diesel generators?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Rackspace are a high-profile data centre in the US. They had a couple of outages in the last few days which have badly damaged their reputation. The main outage, according to Rackspace, happened when: at approximately 6:30 PM CST Monday, a vehicle struck and brought down the transformer feeding power to the DFW data center.…