Rob, That's funny Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com
On Mar 22, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Rob Schramm <rob.schr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
