Monday, July 21, 2014

Some Data Center Downtime Causes are Unpredictable: 10 Strangest Ones

Accidents did happen before.
Some Data Center Downtime Causes are Unpredictable: 10 Strangest Ones:

Squirrel takes down Yahoo’s Santa Clara data center

Squirrels taking a data center down isn’t actually all that rare. They chew everything, including all of those important wires we use to transfer communications. In 2010, “A frying squirrel took out half of our Santa Clara data center,” said Mike Christian, who runs business continuity for Yahoo, during a keynote at the O’Reilly Velocity conference.

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