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Investigating Data Center Emergencies: What Prevents us From Eliminating Downtimes and Avoiding Incidents?
Despite all the measures taken by designers, operators and certifying bodies, data centers go offline from time to time. It happens both in small data centers and hyperscale ones belonging to the largest telecos and cloud giants. Meanwhile, each data center operator and owner is highly interested in reducing downtime risk to a minimum (ideally – in its full elimination). But few are interested in disclosing the root causes of failures in their work. This article provides an overview of the most famous data centers failures around the world in 2015.