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<b>Da:</b> Francesca Ciceri <madamezou@debian.org><br>
<b>Inviato il:</b> Thu Apr 04 18:55:19 CEST 2013<br>
<b>A:</b> debian-news@lists.debian.org<br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure<br>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px"><hr /><br />The Debian Project <a href="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</a>/<br />A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure<br />press@debian.org<br />April 4th, 2013 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130404">http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130404</a><br /><hr /><br /><br /><br />Earlier this week, Debian started deploying machines for its core<br />infrastructure services which will be hosted in a new data centre in<br />York, UK. The hardware, generously donated and hosted by Bytemark<br />Hosting [1], consists of a fully-populated HP BladeSystem (containing 16<br />server blades) and several HP Modular Storage Arrays (providing a total<br />of 57 TB).<br /><br />1: <a href="http://bytemark.co.uk">http://bytemark.co.uk</a><br /><br />"Bytemark's servers have relied on Debian since the day we started the<br />company in 2002, and it was always an embarassingly good deal. We've<br />tried to repay it through sponsorship of the annual DebConf gatherings,<br />and through publication of Symbiosis (our own packages to make Debian<br />easier for hosting tasks)," explained Matthew Bloch, co-founder of<br />Bytemark. "While we can't match the unpaid efforts of the project's<br />thousand of volunteers, we're at least happy to be providing such a<br />substantial part of Debian's infrastructure. Debian's success will<br />continue to spur Bytemark's."<br /><br />"This significant hardware and hosting donation will allow the Debian<br />Systems Administration (DSA) team [2] to distribute Debian's core<br />services across a greater number of geographically diverse locations,<br />and improve, in particular, the fault-tolerance and availability of end-<br />user facing services," said Luca Filipozzi (DSA team member).<br />"Additionally, the storage component of this donation will dramatically<br />reduce the storage challenges that Debian currently faces. Our plan is<br />to move several storage-intensive services to Bytemark," he continued.<br />"It is only through donations of time, goods and funds that the 100%<br />volunteer Debian Project is able to operate the critical infrastructure<br />necessary to support its work." Further details of which services will<br />be moved to this new equipment will be provided soon on the debian-<br />infrastructure-announce mailing list [3].<br /><br />2: <a href="http://dsa.debian.org">http://dsa.debian.org</a><br />3: <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce">http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce</a><br /><br /><br />About Bytemark<br />--------------<br /><br />Bytemark [4] has been the UK's "nerd hosting outfit of choice" since<br />2002. It has a history of building its own technology including BigV, a<br />new command-line cloud hosting platform, and Symbiosis, a set of<br />packages to make hosting on Debian even easier. The company powers tens<br />of thousands of domains around the world, and sponsors hosting for<br />hundreds of important free software projects including Debian,<br />LibreOffice and XBMC.<br /><br />4: <a href="http://bytemark.co.uk">http://bytemark.co.uk</a><br /><br /><br />About Debian<br />------------<br /><br />The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free<br />community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the<br />largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of<br />volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain<br />Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range<br />of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system".<br /><br /><br />Contact Information<br />-------------------<br /><br />For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at<br /><a href="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</a>/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.<br /></pre><br>
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