problem with the interruptible power supplies
I gotta get me one of those IPS. Much more fun than UPS.
From: Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Finger trouble brings down NHS
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:52:07 +0200
Well, a large part of it for over three days. Anyone remember when a
mainframe last brought
down a hospital for three days, let alone eighty of them? Also a
cautionary tale for the
outsourced - if there are only enough engineers to bring up n customers an
hour, have you got
your priorities sorted out?
This really is a cautionary tale - making the intangible "what if it all
goes wrong" much more
tangible.
And note the really good bit:
"The original outage was preceded on Sunday with a team of engineers being
called to
investigate a problem with the interruptible power supplies that usually
prevent losses of
electricity to the computers in CSC's Maidstone data centre.
While they where working an unexpected power spike was shot around the data
centre, taking out
its main servers."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/02/private_before_nhs/
(Giggle - http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550 )
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Phil Payne
http://www.isham-research.co.uk
+44 7833 654 800
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