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British Airways Says IT Collapse Came After Servers Damaged By Power Problem (reuters.com)
A huge IT failure that stranded 75,000 British Airways passengers followed damage to servers that were overwhelmed when the power returned after an outage, the airline said on Wednesday. From a report: BA is seeking to limit the damage to its reputation and has apologised to customers after hundreds of flights were canceled over a long holiday weekend. The airline provided a few more details of the incident in its latest statement on Wednesday. While there was a power failure at a data center near London's Heathrow airport, the damage was caused by an overwhelming surge once the electricity was restored, it said. "There was a total loss of power at the data center. The power then returned in an uncontrolled way causing physical damage to the IT servers," BA said in a statement. "It was not an IT issue, it was a power issue."
"Those union electricians told us we could run all these servers without upgrading the circuit breakers. It's not an IT problem, it's a union problem!"
Come on... It's apparent, the power surge was so severe it crossed the VPN Tunnels when they re-opened and traveled into another city and damaged those systems too!
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How big a current spike was this?
1.21 Jiggawatts, and it sent them back to 1985.
Well, India has a notoriously unreliable electrical grid.
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85 mph won't cut it. Gotta get that baby up to 88!
it's not our DC so we don't deal with the power part it's the DC that we outsourced to that does the power part.
They obviously only got around to implementing the first half of their Disaster Recovery solution. They will implement the Recovery half next year.