On 1 June 2017 at 11:50, Simon Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Morning List :) > > > > 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. > > > > Slightly more casually interested in BT exchanges as well. > > > > I’m aware of: > > · Several corporate incidents, including Three, Capita, and Vodafone > > · The Telecity power issues from a few years back, though they were > less than a day >
Not a DC outage but the Kings College outage was pretty serious, if you have a SPoF be it a single RAID array or single DC, its a SPoF; https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/25/and_so_we_enter_day_seven_of_kings_college_london_major_it_outage/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/after_kcl_kills_uniwide_backups_staff_get_order_to_never_make_their_own/ Cheers, James.
