I heard about a major electric utility that had an influential VP who believed that it was 'unseemly' for the company to spend money on backup power. Sort dissing their own product. He blocked all efforts to install diesel generators. Thankfully he is long gone. A major multi-state event in the mid-2000s induced the company to finally invest in serious power backup and DR.
I love the old saw about the cobbler's children going without shoes. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 9:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites And you're in the electric power BUSINESS! Up here in northern CA we used to joke that PG&E's company song should be the Simon & Garfunkel "Hello Darkness my Old Friend." Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 8:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites Our data center folks insist on dual power feeds for everything, sometimes infuriatingly so. To test power redundancy, they occasionally drop one power feed or the other--with ample heads up--and check that all devices are functioning. Other than call-home events, we have not had any surprises so far. Testing for a full power outage (both sides) is a lot harder, but it has been done here a few times. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
