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City's IT Infrastructure Brought To Its Knees By Data Center Outage

Posted by Soulskill on from the watch-out-for-that-first-explosion,-it's-a-doozy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On July 11th in Calgary, Canada, a fire and explosion was reported at the Shaw Communications headquarters. This took down a large swath of IT infrastructure, including Shaw's telephone and Internet customers, local radio stations, emergency 911 services, provincial services such Alberta Health Services computers, and Alberta Registries. One news site reports that 'The building was designed with network backups, but the explosion damaged those systems as well.' No doubt this has been a hard lesson on how NOT to host critical public services."

3 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. No Site Level Resiliency? by sociocapitalist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whoever designed this should be smacked in the head. You never have critical services relying on a single location. Should have redundancy at every level, including geographic (ie not in the same flood / fault / fire zone).

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  2. Re:First post! by clarkn0va · · Score: 5, Funny

    So Shaw customers get all their disappointment in one fell swoop, while you suffer subclinical abuse on an ongoing basis. Congrats.

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  3. It was so bad.. by Megahard · · Score: 5, Funny

    It caused a stampede.

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