http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/231300449 By Charles Babcock InformationWeek August 09, 2011 A lightning strike in Dublin, Ireland knocked Amazon's European cloud services offline Sunday and some customers were expected to be down for up to two days. Amazon needed disaster recovery capability with live data replication to be in place for many customers to avoid being caught in the outage. Both primary and secondary power supplies were knocked out in the same lightning strike during an intense electrical storm Sunday over the city of Dublin, where Amazon operates its European zone data center. The strike caused a transformer explosion and fire in the grid of Amazon's electricity supplier; the same strike also knocked out Amazon's backup generators. [...] ___________________________________________________________ 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 Wed Aug 10 2011 - 05:35:15 PDT
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