http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2011/01/linkedin-ipo-filing-reveals-poor-disaster-recovery-set-up By Yevgeniy Sverdli Datacenter Dynamics 28th January, 2011 Although it has recently implemented a disaster recovery program, the professional social networking company LinkedIn does not currently have a way to quickly shift production workload to a back-up data center. In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company disclosed that downtime at its primary data center means downtime for LinkedIn. “Although this program is functional, it does not yet provide a real-time back-up data center, so if our primary data center shuts down, there will be a period of time that the website will remain shut down while the transition to the back-up data center takes place,” the document read. The document cited is LinkedIn’s statement of registration for an Initial Public Offering, which aims to raise up to US$175m. The offering’s underwriters are Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merill Lynch, JP Morgan, Allen and Company and UBS. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Sun Jan 30 2011 - 23:13:07 PST
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