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Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center

Posted by samzenpus on from the come-on-thunder dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Lightning struck a Google data center in Belgium four times in rapid succession last week, permanently erasing a small amount of users' data from the cloud. The affected disks were part of Google Computer Engine (GCE), a utility that lets people run virtual computers in the cloud on Google's servers. Despite the uncontrollable nature of the incident, Google has accepted full responsibility for the blackout and promises to upgrade its data center storage hardware, increasing its resilience against power outages.

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  1. Whaaa? by SpankiMonki · · Score: 4, Funny

    Permanently erased? How can this be? Doesn't Google keep an off-site backup of my pr0n on tape or DVDs or sumpthin? So much for best practices, I guess.

    1. Re:Whaaa? by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

      lightening may have caused things to run off batteries for a bit too long

      Darkening reduces the output of solar panels, so you can't win either way.

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  2. Re:Oh realy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cloud to Cloud lightning is about 3 times more common than cloud to ground, so its not that crazy.

  3. In other news... by LatePaul · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Alphabet's new "personal re-vivification" project is making good progress. The project leader, V.Frankenstein was unavailable for comment however.

  4. Re:Oh realy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's cloud computing after all. Of course there will be frequent lighting.

  5. Another Flash Vulnerability ? by Dave+Whiteside · · Score: 5, Funny

    n/t

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  6. If my calculations are correct... by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 3, Funny

    That comes to 4.84 Jiggawatts! No wonder there was outage.

  7. Re:Oh realy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another reason not to store your important data in the cloud.

  8. Re:Oh realy? by slimshady76 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another reason not to store your important data in the cloud.

    Arrrgh, somebody please mod this up!!! You made me snort my coffee.