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27 July 2021
Inside Our Network: Maintenance Events
Preventive maintenance on a global network isn’t all that different from the maintenance you probably do for your car. If deprioritized for too long, issues can start to compound.
08 July 2021
In the Trenches: Disaster Recovery
What happens when disaster strikes and your data and infrastructure are compromised? Having a disaster recovery plan helps minimize damage and keep your business running.
29 April 2021
Great Things from Small Beginnings
Our small team deployed over two dozen new Metal locations in less than 12 months. Here’s how it went and what we learned. Plus pictures!
05 January 2021
Why It’s Harder to Get a Server Into Sydney than a Satellite Into Space
In short: being good at getting hardware in (and maybe even out) of data centers of all shapes and sizes is increasingly important.
01 January 2019
Welcome to the Year of Subscale
How we're working to bring the best of hyperscale deployments to specialized hardware.
25 October 2015
Redfish and the Future of Bare Metal Server Automation
Scripting against some of the most fundamental server management tools like IPMI is done via line-by-line bash scripts. Will the RedFish project bring BMC out of the 1990's and further support the need for systems automation?
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