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Data Center Power Failures Mount

Posted by timothy on from the send-money-drugs-and-sealed-lead-acid-batteries dept.

1sockchuck writes "It was a bad week to be a piece of electrical equipment inside a major data center. There have been five major incidents in the past week in which generator or UPS failures have caused data center power outages that left customers offline. Generators were apparently the culprit in a Rackspace outage in Dallas and a fire at Fisher Plaza in Seattle (which disrupted e-commerce Friday), while UPS units were cited in brief outages at Equinix data centers in Sydney and Paris on Thursday and a fire at 151 Front Street in Toronto early Sunday. Google App Engine also had a lengthy outage Thursday, but it was attributed to a data store failure."

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  1. Re:If only you had listened... by sharkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hell, the ShameWOW has that beat.

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  2. Re:If only you had listened... by Puppet+Master · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Billy, welcome back!!!

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  3. Re:If only you had listened... by Stenchwarrior · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First it was Ed, Farrah, Michael and then Billy. Now wide-spread power outages?? Not sure about you guys, but I smell Apocalypse brewing. Time to get right with Mr. Noodle and his Parmesan profits.

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  4. Ugh. I just finished re-watching, "Die Hard 4". by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It was a terrible movie, not the kind I like to watch anyway, but for some reason I felt compelled to view the damned thing twice in two days.

    The Big Bad Threat in the film was all about something called a Fire Sale, ("It All Has To Go"), where the population's fear level is spiked up into a panic by a group of bad guys deliberately crashing the national infrastructure by way of hacking all the most important computer systems. --All to create a giant distraction so that the stock market could be plundered by thievesssssss! The story is weirdly in keeping with the theme of this Slashdot article.

    Consider: Everything is a metaphor in this big old world of ours where matter and energy are based on nothing more than space and the vague notion that there is something which exists. With no matter to speak of, the whole of reality is little more than a hologram, and that being the case, the power of thought and awareness holds about the same amount of substance, if not more. --The subconscious is connected quite well to the whole affair, and events of some magnitude like today's server outages will tend to send ripples through reality so that poor shmucks like me find themselves watching in fascination stupid movies they hate without knowing why.

    All I know for sure is that Bruce Willis was a lot more fun to watch when he was playing opposite Cybill Shepherd.

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