iWeb Communities: Blog

Ile Sans Fil (ISF – Island without wires ) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide free public wireless Internet access on the island of Montreal. The organization has existed since 2003 and now has 150,000 subscribers who benefit from its services in nearly 150 access points in public places (cafes, parks, etc..) (more…)

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a technology allowing a higher level of storage reliability and performance from disk-drive components via the technique of arranging them into arrays. A RAID array is a configuration with multiple physical disks set up to use a RAID architecture like RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, etc. While the RAID array distributes data across multiple disks, it is considered as a single disk by the server operating system. (more…)

Google, is the most popular search engine in the world holding approximately 70% of the market share. It has now become the leading tool to search for information on the Internet. Rushing on Google several times a day for an answer to a question became a reflex. In December 2008, there were approximately 31 billion searches per month on Google.

Companies quickly saw the enormous potential of this visibility. To “exist” on the Internet, being displayed on Google is now a must. According to a popular saying, “if you are not active on Google, you’re not on the Internet.” (more…)

Some time ago we announced the construction of a new data center.

For this fourth data center we wanted to innovate both in terms of network architecture, for example with the automated provisioning of servers, and in terms of power management and cooling. In addition to the glycol cooling, we will use XDC units that will inject cold air allowing a high density of servers.

Our CTO, Cyril Mertès, is even researching a way to use recycled water during the summer instead of glycol in order to further reduce our energy footprint. (more…)

The first question one should ask is why use a storage solution rather than a regular hard drive?

Hard drives are useful to store and quickly access to data but they may fail at any time or even alter and delete data. (more…)