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As Hurricane Season Looms, It's Disaster-Preparedness Time

Posted by Soulskill on from the make-sure-the-anti-zombie-alarms-have-batteries dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "In 2012, hurricane Sandy smacked the East Coast and did significant damage to New Jersey, New York City, and other areas. Flooding knocked many datacenters in Manhattan offline, temporarily taking down a whole lot of Websites in the process. Now that fall (and the tail end of hurricane season) is upon us again, any number of datacenters and IT companies are probably looking over their disaster-preparedness checklists in case another storm comes barreling through. Ryan Murphey, who heads up design and capacity planning for PEER 1 (which kept its Manhattan datacenter running during the storm by creating a makeshift bucket brigade to carry fuel to the building's 17th floor), offers a couple basic tips for possibly mitigating damage from the next infrastructure-crushing disaster, including setting up emergency response teams and arranging contracts for maintenance and fuel in advance."

4 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hurricane season is just about over. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since NY was affected by a hurricane in the fall, hurricane season now officially starts in the fall. Everyone else be damned.

  2. Re-Inventing The Wheel by VortexCortex · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look, we don't have to re-invent the wheel. A hurricane preparedness kit is EXACTLY the same as Zombie Survival Kit minus the shotguns.

  3. Re:How many emergencies in the past 12 years? by mythosaz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While rural New Mexico might be extreme, there's a reason that places like Phoenix AZ are filled with new data centers and skilled IT staff. Need a disaster recovery site? Put it here, or in Nevada. Flood? Hurricane? Earthquake? Tornados? You must be kidding.

    Sure, it's not the tech density of San Jose, but it's kitten-safe from a disaster standpoint.

  4. Sandy Wasn't a Hurricane by sexconker · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sandy was a tropical storm. Not a hurricane. No, there wasn't anything "super" about it.