Cloud Computing: Data centers batten down as Hurricane Sandy blows in
October 29, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Data centers up and down the eastern seaboard went into emergency mode to keep up and running as Hurricane Sandy churned northwards. But the key to survivabilty is not last-minute prep but long-running practices.
As Hurricane Sandy swept north and toward landfall, data centers from Florida to Boston and further north did their things to prepare. Verizon’s Terremark unit went on high alert last week as Sandy approached Terremark’s Miami-area sites. Then it replicated the process for its major facilities in Culpepper, Va., and the New York area, said spokesman Xavier Gonzalez…
Sandy is bringing wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour in New Jersey, and the related storm surge could reach record levels of between 6 and 11 feet. “From our perspective, this is part of doing business — we build data centers with these situations in mind. And from the cloud computing perspective, people have to remember that the cloud lives in data centers,” said Gonzalez. (Verizon is posting regular Sandy updates here.)…
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