On 01/06/17 11:50, Simon Green wrote:
I’m hunting for an examples of long duration data centre outages in the
UK, from a day of downtime to total data centre loss (explosion or some
other industrial accident).
Is anyone aware of any tails they could share? Bigger and higher impact
the better.
SSP had a major outage towards the end of 2016 where a data centre power
supply failure damaged their storage system. They supply integration
software to a significant percentage of insurance brokers, who were
basically unable to do any work for several weeks:
http://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/breaking-news/the-ssp-outage-two-weeks-on-37592.aspx
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/07/ssp_decommissions_outage_hit_data_centre/
It didn't make the mainstream news (other than El Reg) as SSP isn't a
household name, but it was the top story within the industry for over a
month.
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Paul Waring
Freelance consultant
https://www.pwaring.com
