A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure

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> De: Francesca Ciceri <madamezou at debian.org>
> Para: debian-news at lists.debian.org
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> Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 4 de Abril de 2013 13:55
> Assunto: A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure
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> The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
> A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure
>                                                         press at debian.org
> April 4th, 2013                http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130404
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> Earlier this week, Debian started deploying machines for its core
> infrastructure services which will be hosted in a new data centre in
> York, UK. The hardware, generously donated and hosted by Bytemark
> Hosting [1], consists of a fully-populated HP BladeSystem (containing 16
> server blades) and several HP Modular Storage Arrays (providing a total
> of 57 TB).
> 
>     1: http://bytemark.co.uk
> 
> "Bytemark's servers have relied on Debian since the day we started the
> company in 2002, and it was always an embarassingly good deal. We've
> tried to repay it through sponsorship of the annual DebConf gatherings,
> and through publication of Symbiosis (our own packages to make Debian
> easier for hosting tasks)," explained Matthew Bloch, co-founder of
> Bytemark. "While we can't match the unpaid efforts of the project's
> thousand of volunteers, we're at least happy to be providing such a
> substantial part of Debian's infrastructure. Debian's success will
> continue to spur Bytemark's."
> 
> "This significant hardware and hosting donation will allow the Debian
> Systems Administration (DSA) team [2] to distribute Debian's core
> services across a greater number of geographically diverse locations,
> and improve, in particular, the fault-tolerance and availability of end-
> user facing services," said Luca Filipozzi (DSA team member).
> "Additionally, the storage component of this donation will dramatically
> reduce the storage challenges that Debian currently faces. Our plan is
> to move several storage-intensive services to Bytemark," he continued.
> "It is only through donations of time, goods and funds that the 100%
> volunteer Debian Project is able to operate the critical infrastructure
> necessary to support its work." Further details of which services will
> be moved to this new equipment will be provided soon on the debian-
> infrastructure-announce mailing list [3].
> 
>     2: http://dsa.debian.org
>     3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce
> 
> 
> About Bytemark
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> Bytemark [4] has been the UK's "nerd hosting outfit of choice" 
> since
> 2002. It has a history of building its own technology including BigV, a
> new command-line cloud hosting platform, and Symbiosis, a set of
> packages to make hosting on Debian even easier. The company powers tens
> of thousands of domains around the world, and sponsors hosting for
> hundreds of important free software projects including Debian,
> LibreOffice and XBMC.
> 
>     4: http://bytemark.co.uk
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> The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free
> community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
> largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
> volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
> Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range
> of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating 
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