+1 for Hurricane Sandy hitting a few Manhattan and East coast facilities. I recall hearing stories of staff in 75 Broad trudging up and down stairs with buckets of diesel (due to pump failures) until they were (probably quite sensibly) told to stop. Other facilities also had issues with diesel, eg algae clogging up filters etc after prolonged running etc
Back here, Gos has featured a few times on this "list of shame", Braham had a network issue once due to theft, HEX, Sov (quite recently) but don’t think any of these have been days and days. A bit of Googling will unearth these. A large ISP had a mega network issue a couple of years ago, they have since been acquired, haven't the heart to name and shame on here, you're welcome to call me if you want the full grizzly details!! But again, more of a network than data centre issue. Tim -----Original Message----- From: uknof [mailto:uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] On Behalf Of James Bensley Sent: 01 June 2017 14:42 To: Simon Green <simon.gr...@wirehive.com> Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Example of total DC loss On 1 June 2017 at 11:50, Simon Green <simon.gr...@wirehive.com> wrote: > Morning List :) > > > > I’m hunting for an examples of long duration data centre outages in > the UK, from a day of downtime to total data centre loss (explosion or > some other industrial accident). > > > > Is anyone aware of any tails they could share? Bigger and higher > impact the better. > > > > Slightly more casually interested in BT exchanges as well. > > > > I’m aware of: > > · Several corporate incidents, including Three, Capita, and Vodafone > > · The Telecity power issues from a few years back, though they were > less than a day > Not a DC outage but the Kings College outage was pretty serious, if you have a SPoF be it a single RAID array or single DC, its a SPoF; https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/25/and_so_we_enter_day_seven_of_kings_college_london_major_it_outage/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/after_kcl_kills_uniwide_backups_staff_get_order_to_never_make_their_own/ Cheers, James.
