NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy

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NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @05:01AM from the bucket-brigade dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "Problems in New York's data centers persisted through Wednesday morning, with hosting companies and other facilities racing against time to keep generators humming as water was pumped out of their facility basements. The fight now is to keep those generators fueled while pumps clear the basement areas, allowing the standard backup generators to begin operating. It's also unclear whether the critical elements of infrastructure (power and communications) will both be up and running in time to restore services. The following is a list of some of the data centers and services in the area, and how they're faring." I'm responsible for a few servers at Peer1, and their efforts are interesting: "Peer1’s operations at 75 Broad are operating on sheer manpower: a bucket brigade. According to a blog post from Fog Creek Software, one of the clients at the building, about 30 customers are lifting buckets (or cans) of diesel fuel up 18 flights of stairs."

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The Cloud by azalin · 2012-10-31 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

When it's wet, the clouds go down
Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! by kav2k · 2012-10-31 05:14 · Score: 5, Funny

People can be replaced. Uptime, on the other hand..
Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! by EmagGeek · 2012-10-31 05:18 · Score: 3, Funny

But, you see, without the Internet, it will be impossible to get all of those less essential services back up and running! After all, how is anyone going to obtain official updates from the Administration if they cannot access ready.gov, since that is apparently the only place to get them?
So, let's make sure you have the priorities straight in your head:
1) Internet
2) Power
3) Facebook Access
4) Starbucks
5) Running Water and Sewer
Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! by kav2k · 2012-10-31 05:24 · Score: 3, Funny

To close the sarcasm tag, here's also an obligatory xkcd.
On a side note, this reminded me of Cory Doctorow's "When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth".
Re:generators in basements, smart or not? by war4peace · 2012-10-31 05:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Volcano's what?

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...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Geez by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-31 05:44 · Score: 1, Funny

This would never happen at an Amish data center.
Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! by ciderbrew · 2012-10-31 05:51 · Score: 4, Funny

The Starbucks is to test the Sewers with.