In the Wall Street Journal the company decided to talk about this disproportionate operation, called "Simba". Very few details have so far been revealed about the project. We only know that it would be connected to existing access points, particularly on some beaches on the east, north and west coasts.

Surrounding Africa with a gigantic submarine fibre optic cable would allow almost the entire population to enjoy the Internet. Facebook knows that to extend, it must absolutely attack this continent inhabited by more than 1.2 billion people and which is not yet very well connected to the rest of the world. This is due to infrastructure that is still under development and completely uncovered areas. So if several million Africans could connect to the Internet tomorrow and create a Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram account, the social network would save a lot of users in a very short time.

However, there would not yet be a signed agreement for the installation of this huge cable. And this is not the first time Facebook has talked about installing an underwater cable to connect the world. Facebook was pulling a transatlantic cable over 6,500 kilometers long, Marea, in 2017 with the help of Microsoft. The installation began in 2016 and provided a stable connection in 2018 by connecting Virginia Beach, United States to Bilbao, Spain.

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Source : Siècle Digital

While power outages are a frequent cause of data center outages, they are no longer the only ones. Indeed, IT system failures and network errors are causing more and more failures. That's why the Uptime Institute looked at known outages to find out what caused unplanned service interruptions. To do this, the company has analyzed 162 service interruptions reported in traditional and social media over the past three years.

27 outages were reported in the media in 2016, 57 in 2017 and 78 in 2018. "Service outages are increasingly making headlines in the media," said Andy Lawrence, the Institute's Executive Director of Research. This does not necessarily mean that the number of failures is skyrocketing, but rather that downtime is attracting more and more attention. "It is clear that for users, the impact of outages is certainly more damaging today," he adds.

The study revealed that in global outages, network and IT system problems are more often blamed than those related to power supply. This is explained by the fact that power supply systems are more reliable than in the past and that there are fewer power outages in data centers.

At the same time, the increasing complexity of IT environments is causing a growing number of IT and network problems. "Data is now dispersed in multiple locations, with critical dependencies on the network, on how applications are architected and on how databases replicate each other. It is a very complex system, and it now takes fewer events to disrupt its operation," said Todd Trader, Vice President of Optimization and IT Strategy at the Uptime Institute.

This trend is all the more pronounced when comparing causes from one year to the next. 28% of outages were due to power supply problems in 2017 compared to 11% the following year. IT system failures remained relatively constant: 32% in 2017 and 35% in 2018. Outages due to network problems have increased significantly, from 19% in 2017 to 32% in 2018. "Things are linked not to one or two sites but to three or four or more sites, or even more, The network plays an increasingly important role in computer resilience," says Todd Traver.

In order to be able to distinguish an interruption that can threaten the activity of a company from a just disturbing failure, the Uptime Institute has developed an evaluation grid with a scale of 5 levels:

• Level 1: refers to a negligible stop. The failure is recordable but there is little or no obvious impact on services and no service interruption.
• Level 2: refers to a minimal interruption of service. Services are disrupted, but the effect on users, customers or reputation is minimal.
• Level 3: refers to a service interruption that is significant to the company. These are interruptions in customer or user service, most often of limited scope, duration or impact. The financial impact is minimal or non-existent but there is some impact on reputation or compliance.
• Level 4: concerns a serious operational or service failure leading to service disruption and/or operations involving financial loss, non-compliance, reputation damage and possibly even security issues with possible loss of customers.
• Level 5: Describes a critical failure for the company or mission, resulting in a major and damaging interruption of services and/or operations, involving significant financial loss, security issues, non-compliance, customer losses and reputation damage.

This analysis was further developed by researchers who specifically identified the origin of data center failures.

The most common reasons for failures when the network is down:

• fiber cuts outside the datacenter and insufficient number of routing alternatives
• intermittent failure of the main switches and absence of secondary routers
• major switch failure without backup
• incorrect traffic configuration during maintenance
• incorrect configuration of routers and networks defined by softwar
• failure to power individual unsaved components such as switches and routers

For IT, the most common causes are:

• poorly managed upgrade
• failure and subsequent data corruption of a large number of disks or SAN storage systems
• synchronization failure or programming errors in the load balancing or traffic management system
• poorly programmed failure / synchronization or disaster recovery system
• power loss to unsaved individual components

When the power supply fails, the reasons for the failures are:

• lightning causes overvoltages and power outages
• intermittent failures with transfer switches and inability to start generators or transfer to a second datacenter
• inverter failures and lack of transfer to secondary systems
• the supplier is unable to deliver the necessary power with subsequent failure of the generator or inverter
• damage to computer equipment caused by overvoltages

"In general, companies should pay more attention to the resilience of data centers. They need to know their architectures, to understand all the interdependencies, to identify the reasons for failures, to plan solutions in case of failure. However, this last aspect is often neglected," adds Todd Traver.

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Source : Le Monde Informatique

Lyon deserved to have a Carrier Hôtel Neutre on its territory.

This is thanks to HosTELyon, which, after six months of renovation, presented its brand new

120-bay data center, mainly oriented interco Telecom.

An afterwork punctuated by the traditional dinner cocktail.

Find the main pictures of the evening here.

Photographe : Marine-Agathe GONARD / AGATHE PHOTOS

100% open source and community-focused, Nextcloud allows you to store your documents, contacts, photos and manage your calendar. The main new feature: instant messaging for live chat and organize videoconferences.

This service is available free of charge to all our members. To do this, simply create an account at the following address: nextcloud.rezopole.net. Users of Owncloud services are also invited to switch to Nextcloud.

The service is centralized on Rezopole's infrastructures, which provides a better quality of transfer for participants in Rezopole's IXPs, but also for users (companies, local authorities, etc.) whose ISPs work on this node.

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Sorry for the latecomers but the event is sold out. We are closing the registrations today.

HosTELyon and Rezopole are looking forward to meeting you on April 10th.

Meet at the Sapristi brewery, from 6:30 pm, to share professional experiences and good humour.

hosTELyon and Rezopole are pleased to invite you to the 56th edition of the Aperezo which will take place on Wednesday 10th April at Sapristi, from 6:30 pm to 10 pm.

Attention: the number of places being limited, registration is MANDATORY.
For organizational and security reasons, any person not in possession of a nominative registration confirmation * will be refused access to the event.

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About our sponsor

"hosTELyon is the neutral Carrier Hotel in Lyon (telecom-oriented datacenter not owned by a telecom operator in the market). From the opening: 120 bays, Tier 3 design, and 600 m² of offices, meeting rooms, presentation rooms, preparation and rest rooms. A technical site above all, but also designed for the well-being of the participants.
Already more than 5 FON networks present on site, three fiber supply points, 2 power supplies.
hosTELyon manages security, electricity, air conditioning, patching D+1 and offers hands & eyes services. We only do that and we do it well! "

Rezopole is pleased to invite you on Wednesday, April 10th to the next IXPloration organized in its offices at 16 rue de la Thibaudière, 69007 Lyon.

This completely free event will be an opportunity for you to discover LyonIX, the IXP / NAP of Lyon.

Thus will be detailed during this morning:
- the IXP part, which improves Internet exchanges between users in a territory, reduces telecom costs, and secures and optimizes the network thanks to the multiple routes offered.
- the NAP part, which provides connected members with direct access to the operators present and their offers. We buy or sell any type of Telecom service with great flexibility.

On the agenda

9h00 – 9h30 : Welcome over a coffee

9h30 – 10h30 : Presentation of LyonIX :

                         - Economic and technical advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and Answers

10h30 – 11h30 : Visit to a LyonIX Point of Presence

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Exciting exchanges between our four speakers during this afterwork dedicated to Emotional Intelligence in companies. For more than 1h30, Lisa Bellinghausen, Catherine Dou Eustaquio, Laurence Doumba Kinda and Nadia Boulegroun shared, with the audience, their practices and analyses of the phenomenon.

This round table, moderated by Élodie Mervelay from Rezopole, focused on the definition of Emotional Intelligence and its interpretation within the company.

Our interveners:

• Lisa Bellinghausen (Qualia Conseil) is a Dr. in Psychology, lecturer, coach and trainer,
• Catherine Dou Eustaquio (Zayo) is Account Director,
• Laurence Doumba Kinda (Apec) is an HR Consultant and Community Manager,
• Nadia Boulegroun (Alliances RH) is an HR & Organizational Management Consultant.

Also a big thank you to all the participants for their cheerful interaction. All this with seriousness. Click here to discover the best pictures.

 Photographer : Marine-Agathe GONARD / AGATHE PHOTOS

Many thanks to all of you for your interest in this event.

See you on Tuesday, March 5th at 6:30 pm at the TUBA for this evening debate on the theme "Emotional Quotient: New Measurement of Intellectual and Functional Skills in Business". The whole closed with a cocktail reception.

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Join us for our evening debate followed by a cocktail reception on Tuesday, March 5th at 6:30 p.m. at the TUBÀ on the theme "Emotional Quotient: New Measurement of Intellectual and Functional Skills in Business".


Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer have identified Emotional Intelligence as "a form of social intelligence that involves the ability to observe one's own feelings and the feelings of others, to separate them and to use this information to guide one's thoughts and actions".

After having defined in more detail what is meant by Emotional Intelligence or Emotional Quotient, we will see how it is used today to serve companies, particularly during the recruitment process or in management. Our four speakers will then discuss the subject based on their experience or analysis of the phenomenon.

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Intervenantes

Dr. in psychology, lecturer, coach and trainer, Lisa Bellinghausen has a passion for emotion. For the past ten years, she has been helping managers and company directors to "realign themselves emotionally" in order to (re)find a balance between professional and personal life and thus increase their performance. In 2017, she and a colleague created a new model of emotional intelligence to capture emotions and gain emotional agility: the 7-step Emotionally Intelligent Process.

Catherine Dou Eustaquio, an engineer by training, has been working in sales and management positions in IT and Telecom for more than 30 years. Considering her job as a sales representative as that of a consultant who will, above all, understand the problems of her clients before providing answers, she favours listening. Catherine is also ambassador for France within her company of the "WIT" group, which aims to promote women in IT jobs.

After an international career, Laurence Doumba Kinda holds a double position at Apec. As an HR consultant, she assists innovative companies with their recruitment, attractiveness and loyalty projects. Community Manager, she leads communities on social networks. Involved in social issues, she is president of the BPW Lyon club, which works for professional and wage equality and fights against discrimination. She is also secretary of the Women's Economic Network.

A university graduate, Nadia Boulegroun, HRD by profession, has supported various organizations, from service to international solidarity and digital. She is currently an HR consultant in the Biotechnologies sector and founder of HiTiJob Academy, an institute dedicated to the training of high-potential profiles wishing to reorient themselves towards digital professions.

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See you on March 05th for a 10ᵉ edition under the theme "Emotional Quotient: New Measurement of Intellectual and Functional Skills in Business".

An evening of discussion with four speakers from the fields of HR, Behavioral Research and of course IT & Telecom.

A round table, moderated by Elodie Mervelay (Rezopole), with as guests:

• Lisa Bellinghausen : Share Consultant & Teacher Emotions Researcher - Qualia Conseils
• Catherine Dou Eustaquio : Account Director - Zayo
• Laurence Doumba Kinda: Consultant in Corporate Relations & Social Media - Apec
• Nadia Boulegroun: HR Consultant & founder of HiTiJob Academy

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Rezopole is pleased to invite you on Wednesday, February 13th to the next IXPloration organized in its offices at 16 rue de la Thibaudière, 69007 Lyon.

This completely free event will be an opportunity for you to discover LyonIX, the IXP / NAP of Lyon.

Thus will be detailed during this morning:
- the IXP part, which improves Internet exchanges between users in a territory, reduces telecom costs, and secures and optimizes the network thanks to the multiple routes offered.
- the NAP part, which provides connected members with direct access to the operators present and their offers. We buy or sell any type of Telecom service with great flexibility.

On the agenda

9h00 – 9h30 : Welcome over a coffee

9h30 – 10h30 : Presentation of LyonIX :

                         - Economic and technical advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and Answers

10h30 – 11h30 : Visit to a LyonIX Point of Presence

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HOPUS and Rezopole are pleased to invite you to the 55th edition of the Aperezo which will take place on Wednesday 6th February at Burger & Wine Confluence, from 6:30 pm to 10 pm.

Attention: the number of places being limited, registration is MANDATORY.
For organizational and security reasons, any person not in possession of a nominative registration confirmation * will be refused access to the event.

* Confirmation by name subsequently sent by e-mail.

Please limit the number of professionals per company to 5.

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By registering, you agree, if you appear on the photos taken during the event, that they be published on our site, social networks and the site of our partner.

About our sponsor

HOPUS is a new kind of network interconnection service provider. Based on the principles of Internet exchange points, we strive to provide quality routes to major networks that do not generally connect to IXs. Access networks receive a counterpart on the traffic carried. We are trying to establish a virtuous model where content can reach users with the best possible quality at a reasonable price. The major ISPs trust us, as do the major content providers.
Meet them on hopus.net.

Rezopole will be meeting you in a few weeks for the first Aperezo of the year.

Come and discover the news of the sponsor of this evening, Hopus, and share a friendly and warm moment between IT and Telecom players in the region.

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