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Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets
jfruhlinger writes "Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the heavily populated U.S. Northeast Corridor. If you work in IT, you know that there are few things that are worse for electronics than water; so, what's your plan? Tom Henderson has come up with a checklist, which sensibly includes backing everything up, twice; not that you have time for it now, but for future reference you might want to consider just moving your whole data center to a location that's been conveniently pre-hardened, like a water tower or a boiler room." Note that Irene has been no joke in the Caribbean; in Puerto Rico (with relatively modern infrastructure), about a third of the island lost power.
I don't worry about Hurricanes, I have TornadoGuard on my iPhone.
Irene gets weaker as she crosses more states with gay marriage, and apparently stops dead at the US/Canada border. Googling for Santorum confirms.
The virtual world has no natural disasters!
Just virtualize your virtual servers so your system is 100% virtual with no hardware, and you have a completely unusable system that can't be damaged because it doesn't exist! Wait, what was the question again? ...to the cloud!
That's ok. We think of Texas as a part of Mexico.
Our IT guys assured us we are OK. Cheetos absorb 47 times their weight in water.
Have gnu, will travel.