Aug 10 2011
Data Centre Lightning Damage
Unbelievable – Dublin lightning strike zaps Amazon, Microsoft data centres! Surely, having and testing a UPS is really basic data centre management!
This says an awful amount about the data centre in question, and it is yet another self-inflicted blow to Cloud Computing.
August 11th, 2011 at 17:36
They had UPS, but were unable to start the backup generators.
August 11th, 2011 at 18:26
Should have used Chaos Monkey!
http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html
August 12th, 2011 at 18:09
Not being able to start backup generators is not a valid excuse!