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Horror story: Qld Health datacentre disaster |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au | 2009/07/02 17:46:02 On 20 May, a brief electricity brown-out struck a Queensland Health datacentre, starting a chain of incidents that resulted in serious outages of over 20 health applications.The datacentre, located on the campus of Herston hospital, is believed to be one of three datacentres Queensland Health operates. It only lost power for a fraction of a second, when two flooded Energex transformers failed at around 5:00pm on that day, according to a source close to the incident. Uninterrupted power supplies kicked in to keep servers up. However, the brown-out tripped the chilled water system, cutting chilled water to the hospital campus. As it wasn't monitored, the datacentre support team didn't notice the loss of the chilled water. A datacentre employee came on scene to check everything was running, but being happy that there wasn't anything wrong, he left. Only two of 10 air-conditioning units within the datacentre were able to use refrigerated gas if chilled water wasn't available, meaning that although the rest of the units were operating, they weren't cooling. The temperature in the datacentre began to rise. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 July 2010 )
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US data center catches fire, 9000 servers down |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
 US data center catches fire, 9000 servers downJune 2nd, 2008 by Kiyani ~ 3 CommentsH1, one of the data center owned by The Planet in Houston, Texas has caught fire resulting in thousands of websites being offline. According to an estimate 9000 servers are affected and they are currently down. The Planet one of the largest privately held dedicated server hosting provider, has six wholly owned and managed state-of-the-art data centers (2 in Houston, 4 in Dallas) containing more than 48,000 servers housed in 155,000 sq. ft. of raised floor space with 12,000 sq. ft. expansion capability. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 July 2010 )
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Welcome to Kostarelas DRP/BCP Website! |
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Written by Web Master
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
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We help client key Operations and IT managers develop and test Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans. Our fundamental goal is the maintenance and recovery of critical business transactions in the event of a significant interruption.
DISASTER RECOVERY Create a Disaster Recovery Plan. As part of our Disaster Recovery preparations (DRP), we will develop a disaster recovery plan. To create and test the plan, we will complete the following steps: 1. Create a set of disaster preparation materials to be kept off site. 2. Set up a test server with a similar configuration to your original server. 3. Simulate a recovery on your test server by following the disaster recovery instructions that is prepared.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 July 2008 )
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