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The New York Times
March 06, 2026
“We’re five days into it, and that’s approaching the longest pauses that happened,” said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on the Strait of Hormuz.
AOL
March 06, 2026
Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, noted that while AWS is designed for seamless failovers, "the loss of multiple data centers within an availability zone could cause serious issues." He emphasized that cloud computing "still requires physical facilities on the ground, which are vulnerable to all sorts of disaster scenarios."
The New York Times
March 06, 2026
Some analysts said they did not expect the conflict to lead to a lengthy pause in shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. No country has closed the strait since large scale oil production began in the Middle East, said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and expert on the Strait of Hormuz.
Marketplace
Audio
March 03, 2026
Global shipping likes to pass cargo through the most direct route to minimize costs and time, said Eugene Gholz, a political science professor at University of Notre Dame.
Associated Press
March 03, 2026
“Amazon has generally configured its services so that the loss of a single data center would be relatively unimportant to its operations,” said Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Other data centers in the same zone can take over, and most of the time this happens seamlessly every day to balance workloads, he said. “That said, the loss of multiple data centers within an availability zone could cause serious issues, as things could reach a point where there simply isn’t enough remaining capacity to handle all the work.”
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