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| Wednesday data center tidbits: Intuit faceplants again. |
This afternoon, Intuit’s web sites are showing a message that they are unavailable due to a commercial power failure and that they are operating on backup power. This begs the questions. Wasn’t the last (self inflicted) power failure episode painful enough to do something about it? Just what ARE they doing with their “backup power”? [...]
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| How to deal with a data center flood. |
Next to fire, flooding is one of the most catastrophic things that can happen to a data center. In this post, I’ll give some tips on how to minimize the impact of data center flooding, before, during, and after the event. BF (Before Flood) 1. Place all electrical entrances, transfer switches, UPS, generators, and batteries [...]
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| Wednesday data center tidbits: no power backup in the #datacenter? |
First up today is about the idea of building a data center with no power backup at all. This is about as boneheaded a thing as I’ve ever seen. Does it REALLY pay you to not only duplicate but run extra infrastructure so you can save a bit in equipment costs by letting a data [...]
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| Intuit, #datacenter, and #cloudcomputing (the three horsemen of the apocalypse) |
I knew it was going to happen just the moment I read about Intuit face planting their data center and web sites for 36 hours. The anti cloud computing crowd are out in force with their mantra that this “proves” that cloud computing is unreliable. What is does prove is that if people can’t come [...]
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