teve O’Donnell, former Global Head of Data Centres at British Telecom has a new blog post on the subject of Data Center reliability where he explains “why your Data Center will fail eventually and you will be affected”.
The consequences of data center failure can be pretty catastrophic for your business, so unsurprisingly, you will have very high expectations about availability and reliability. Unfortunately for many of us, our expectations will not be met by reality. Very often the system that is our data center facility is significantly less reliable than we might wish and than the level of resilience we have been told to expect.
The good news for DataGate customers is that the practices O’Donnell advises are precisely what our upstream provider Level(3) has been implementing recently , specifically UPS Resilience.
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May 10, 2008 at 3:07 pm
The really important issue is attention to detail when deploying new equipment. Make sure that all power streams are balanced and that nothing is overloaded in such a way as to cause a cascade failure. The design is important but daily operations are even more important. Generally people cause outages not equipment.
Steve