by Andy | Aug 9, 2017 | Instant News
Two years ago, a record number of Star Wars fans trying to simultaneously buy tickets to the opener of “The Force Awakens” crashed the online booking systems of nearly all major movie theaters.Traffic surged to seven times more than its peak level in less...
by Andy | Nov 28, 2012 | Instant News
AOL’s Outdoor Micro Data Centers Weather Sandy By Rich Miller AOL’s outdoor servers performed flawlessly during SuperStorm Sandy, demonstrating the durability of the company’s new micro-data center, the company said this week. The storm marked the first serious test...
by Andy | Nov 13, 2012 | Instant News
AOL Moves Micro Data Centers (MDCs) Powered by Penguin Computing Into Production AOL, Inc. and Penguin Computing today announced that AOL has successfully moved its first outside Micro Data Center (MDC) into production. The system currently handles about 20% of the...
by Andy | Nov 6, 2012 | Instant News
On Micro Datacenters, Sandy, Supercomputing 2012, and Coding for Containerized Data Centers By Mike Manos, CTO of AOL ….I As I mentioned before, Super Storm Sandy threw us another curveball as the hurricane crashed into the Mid-Atlantic. While Virginia was not hit...
by Andy | Jul 12, 2012 | Instant News
Meet the Company Buiding AOL’s Micro Data Centers By Derrick Harris Elliptical Mobile Solutions is hardly a household name in the data center world, but don’t bet against it becoming one. The Chandler, Ariz.-based company that started inside a founder’s garage builds...
by Andy | Jul 5, 2012 | Instant News
AOL’s Data Center Independence Day By Mike Manos, CTO of AOL ….The Micro Data Center strategy built out with the latest, our most dense server standards and infrastructure would allow us to have 5X the amount of total TCC in less than 10% of the cost and physical...
by Andy | Sep 12, 2011 | Instant News
UK Based Daxten Becomes Value Added Reseller for Mobile Micro-Data Centres from Elliptical Mobile Solutions Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS), the innovative vendor and market leader for micro-modular data centres, today announced it has signed a Sales Representation...
