The urgency to create full broadband coverage echoes past programs to develop nationwide networks for electricity, telephone, and interstate highways. Each of those ushered in major changes and improvements in communities across the country.
Monday became “Black Monday” for those who rely on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The 8-hour outages on these apps left people confused — and services, such as Twitter, booming with the extra traffic.
Industries most vulnerable to data center outages, like banking and finance, government, health care, manufacturing, media and communications, retail, and transportation/utilities, have average downtime costs of over $5 million per hour.
According to The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Cybersecurity Framework says businesses faced with disaster should identify, protect, detect, respond and recover.
Today’s data centers need to cut costs and reduce energy use while keeping their sensitive equipment cool, and choosing liquid cooling is an effective way to achieve these efficiencies.