Internet traffic has increased worldwide during the last year due to the increase of many digital activities — from remote working and education to video streaming and video calls. The lockdowns and restrictions provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic have accelerated the digital economy and, as a result, Internet traffic growth. Many companies have been forced
Events like the heavy snowfall provoked by Storm Filomena in Madrid last January or the coronavirus pandemic we are facing have highlighted the importance of business continuity. Contingency and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning is simply essential for critical infrastructures like data centers, but not only. In the digital economy, DR planning has become indispensable for
Last January, Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary. To commemorate these two decades of open knowledge, we not only want to highlight its progress but also the infrastructure under such a huge project. Wikipedia was launched in January 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Ever since, it has not stopped evolving until becoming the huge
Stackscale started to support the student association STAR of the Carlos III University in Madrid (UC3M) some months ago. We provide them with the technical infrastructure they need to be able to carry out their intensive studies and simulations without limits in terms of computing capability. From the moment they presented their project to us,
Data center management is always essential; especially when severe weather conditions — such as the heavy snowfall Filomena provoked in Madrid almost two weeks ago — increase the level of risk of suffering a disruption. Why? Because a lot of businesses rely on them to host their mission-critical applications. Data centers are a key part
It has been 25 years since AltaVista, one of the first major Internet search engines, was made public. AltaVista was launched on September 15, 1995, by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). DEC’s search engine aimed to show how powerful their new line of computers was. DEC was the leading supplier of computer hardware, software and services
The last version of the PHP language, PHP 8, was released on November 26, 2020. This last major update includes many new features and significant optimizations, compared with previous versions. The development of the 8th version of PHP has been focused on creating new functionalities. Named arguments, attributes, constructor properties and JIT are some of
SD-WAN is short for software-defined Wide Area Network, a cloud-oriented approach to manage Wide Area Networks (WANs). As bandwidth demand grows due to cloud traffic, video streaming rise, mobile connectivity, etc., traditional WANs have become more limiting and less efficient. That is why SD-WAN is becoming more and more popular. SD-WAN is a virtual Wide
The Tarugoconf 2020 will be a 100% online event, due to the current situation, but there are some things that won’t change: it will be an event full of interesting content, networking and inspiring experiences. Stackscale sponsors the event once more, as we have done for previous editions. Despite being an online event, the conference
Among the news planned for 2020, we have launched a new line of compute nodes which go up to 768 GiB RAM. This new line of compute nodes is based on the latest microarchitecture from Intel®, Cascade Lake, and powered by second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. CPU and memory optimized nodes Our new line
