Coreix Managed Servers

As France continues to face a heat wave, a Paris-area Equinix data centre has suffered a cooling outage, leaving some customer services offline for hours. Equinix used backup cooling units to cool the facility and regain control of the second floor of its Paris 2 IBX data centre in St. Denis, France.

“Multiple chillers that support the second floor failed, and the standby chiller system did not start in time to absorb the load,” Equinix France general manager Michel Brignano explained in a report posted to the FrNOG Internet community forum. “This impacted temperatures on the second floor and had indirect effect on the ground floor as well.”

Source: The WHIR

Micro-blogging service Twitter was abuzz with tweets following a hotly disputed weekend presidential election in Iran, causing NTT America, which provides hosting for Twitter, to delay a critical network upgrade because of Twitter’s important role in bypassing the government’s attempts to silence traditional news reports.

The originally scheduled for Monday evening to make space for traffic increases over the past few months, Twitter requested the network capacity upgrade more than 7,000 miles away from the election at its San Jose facility to be delayed. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a blog post that NTT readily cooperated, having recognized Twitter’s important role in Iran at that time. It postponed the upgrade until Tuesday afternoon.

Source: The WHIR