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I suppose I’ve been doing this for too long. What comes as second nature, and common-sense, to me, seems to be exceedingly complicated for some other people to understand. Or, maybe, as I sometimes think, they just cannot ...
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British Airways is blaming the cause of its massive IT outage last weekend on human error. A contractor at its data centre had inadvertently switched off a power supply, leading to a catastrophic IT failure that stranded some ...
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Since I got involved in building data centres over a decade ago, I’ve been a quite fascinated by all the big electricity things. I’m not an electrician, nor am I electrically trained, so there were a lot of things ...
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Installing one server isn’t difficult. It’s not really time consuming either. But it’s a whole lot different when you have to setup a huge number of servers. The ideal state of affairs, for me, is that once the ...
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M1 has come out with more information surrounding its colossal 3G service outage from 15 to 17 January. Great, I was indeed hoping that M1 would share more information. As I last posted, their earlier press release raised many ...
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Today is sort of the equivalent of the Mayan apocalypse for M1. No voice, no text, and no data, for a pretty big chunk of their customers for a pretty big part of the whole day. This is for their 3G mobile service. 2G was still ...
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While on the other side of the world Amazon’s AWS was battling electrical storms, our humble Disaster Recovery (DR) Drill was battling small electrical fires this morning. Every DR Drill we run has always had some form of ...
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This lonely place in the middle of nowhere (actually an industrial area) houses a data centre. Not a very big facility. A long time ago, it was fun to visit data centres. But I run and manage data centres myself as part of my ...
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With the push of this button, the air circuit breaker is switched off, and the disaster recovery (DR) drill is officially started. Yes, if you notice from the photo, the circuit breaker is huge. It is not like any common circuit ...
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Last weekend, zitseng.com and the rest of my servers were moved to a new data centre. The rental costs at the old place had sky-rocketed and it was not economical for us to stay with them anymore. This was responsible for some of ...
