The biggest whomp I heard about was at Midwestern data-center. Highway department dropped a load of ammonium nitrate to widen the Interstate. Over the weekend lightning hit the trailer and kaboom-ed 32k lbs. It was about halfway between primary and secondary data centers. Knocked out the bearings on all their SLEDs at both sites. Saw them at a tuning conference a few weeks later and they still looked like zombies.
There was a neat presentation at SHARE by one of the paint companies in the Susquehanna Valley about single point of failure. I forget all the details but again highway department knocked off the side of a cliff. It had their freshly run fiber between Headquarters, data center and backup. Nothing was damaged but the fiber. They just couldn't talk to each other. Ended up running fiber over an abandoned railroad trestle. One of the sysprogs was a climber and had him upside down repelling over the river. In a message dated 7/7/2020 9:59:38 AM Central Standard Time, r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl writes: Dedicated terrorist attack is unlikely, but when considered you cannot exclude coordinated attack on two (three) datacenters at the time. If you want to be safe you have to protect your datacenter well enough. And of course there is bigger bomb for bigger shelter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
