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(We would like issue a warning to sensitive viewers. This can be hard to watch. ) The iPhone finally launched here in Sweden this July and some of us at Pingdom have already bought one. We love our iPhones. So we can only image what it must feel like to have your shiny new iPhone [...]
A Network Operations Center rests at the heart of every telecom network or major data center, a place to keep an eye on everything. Some of these NOCs are really “dressed to impress”, while others have taken a more mundane approach. So, for inspiration, here is a set of pictures of different NOCs from telecom [...]
There has been a lot of talk about container data centers lately (sometimes also called modular data centers). Most of the time we are only presented with an image of a branded shipping container, but let’s face it, all the interesting stuff is on the inside! So, since we were curious, we here at Pingdom [...]
We here at Pingdom clearly belong to the “geek category” of people here on Earth. We love computers and technology, and almost anything related to that. Even when the computers have been broken down and recycled, they can provide gratification, as shown by the pictures you see below. This is a collection of art (and [...]
Data Center Knowledge recently published a “Google Data Center FAQ”. As most other web geeks, we here at Pingdom tend to find this kind of information quite fascinating. We have extracted some interesting tidbits, and also used the information to construct a map with all current and under-construction Google data center locations that are known [...]
Nowadays we are used to having hundreds of gigabytes of storage capacity in our computers. Even tiny MP3 players and other handheld devices usually have several gigabytes of storage. This was pure science fiction only a few decades ago. For example, the first hard disk drive to have gigabyte capacity was as big as a [...]
As we mentioned earlier, a couple of weeks ago the Serbian Pingdom team came over to Sweden to spend time with us here at the Pingdom HQ. Together we worked out the road map for the coming 12 months for the Pingdom uptime monitoring service and also had a lot of fun on the side. [...]
