I worked for a financial institution that had multiple power grid feeds coming into a set of transformers located in the same room with an earth quake switch. Add workers using jack hammers ... viola dark building. Earth quakes and jack hammers are remarkably similar.
Rob Schramm On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Scott Ford <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I worked for a major ny pharm company, one day an electrician dropped a > wrench into the air handlers on the roof while working creating a major DR > panic.. > > I have been involved in one disaster in Indy in operations, when an entire > city block was a blaze..we were 10 stories up and the windows were so hot you > couldn't touch them.. > > Second one when we moved the pharm. company from NYC to nj, one of the > channel interface cards caught fire and the halon dumped..we thought we were > on our way to Sunguard DR.. > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Barry Merrill <ba...@mxg.com> wrote: > >> John Deere's data center in the 70's had two >> independent power supply companies, but with >> Midwest lightning strikes still had several >> to many outages each year. >> >> Data Center Manager could NOT get approval for >> a diesel power backup UPS because: >> >> The only backup system that was large enough for >> their power load was available from a single vendor >> and that vendor would ONLY use a caterpillar diesel >> engine. >> >> I think after the second year of outages, the data >> center manager was finally allowed to build a >> John Deere Green colored outbuilding building >> to hide the yellow Caterpillar engine. >> >> Barry Merrill >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
