The Verizon building down on Pearl Street in New York is the home of a big cloud run by Sabey. Very much in the area affected by flooding, but I haven't heard any news about problems there.
I agree with you completely about IT security's importance. Many companies could be devastated if their proprietary information is accessed by the "wrong" people. It is just as important to protect the company's information as it is to try to protect the company itself, sometimes more important. A physical location of an orgaization could be completely destroyed, but if their data is intact they can survive!
On a whole, I though Sandy had minimal impact on IT infrastructure. I did notice that some New York-based datacenters did encounter some problems, but they appeared to only be mere blips.
Dcawry, I wonder if this is indeed a matter of the location of the datacenters not having problems. I am curious how many datacenters actually had to rely on back-up generators for several days. If you were one of the lucky ones the storm had little real impact . Could a datacenter rely on generators for a week ( no electricity for a week was common for many locations ). What were these generators using for fuel?perhaps propane ( I assume/hope not gasoline ) and if the supply of propane were interrupted? - not an entirely crazy supposition.
Some organizations don't agree with having their IT equipment in a colo somewhere, but I think it is necessary for failover backup systems. Usually, datacenter proivders can offer better power and ISP redundacy because they are utilizing multiple providers for power and internet as well as backup generators.
On a whole, I though Sandy had minimal impact on IT infrastructure. I did notice that some New York-based datacenters did encounter some problems, but they appeared to only be mere blips.
I could certainly see that. The last thing you want is a bridge going out and someone getting hurt or killed, right? Engineers definitely have it a lot tougher than IT people do in certain regards. Then again, look at security in IT in certain sectors such as government. Security is just as crucial as making sure that bridge is well built with redundancy and mitigation in mind.
@Jason absoutely. In common usage, redundancy is wasteful, but in engineering, it's essential. Though I'm not an engineer I taught writing for the engineering program at NJIT, and I still remember the readings that pointed out that bridges failed due to lack of redundancy.
Having built-in redundancy is most certainly a good thing for any organization to have. I have not worked at a job in many years that hasn't had at least two separate ISP's even if one is strictly used for fail over. Of course, if you lose power and you don't have a generator or at least one that will get you going for very long, it won't matter how many ISP's you have. That's where I've found datacenters to be quite handy. They can facilitate the type of backup power that a regular business just can't do so that would give users the ability to work more globally.
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