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<font size="-1"><font face="Trebuchet MS">Hah, yeah, because a
plethora of DCs means they're "doing things right".<br>
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Not to mention Equinix's *awesome* legal contracts.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/01/2014 4:21 PM, Jared Hirst
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<pre wrap="">Must be a very good reason, they have 100+ DC's all the same :(
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Brookfield [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au">mailto:Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au</a>]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 4:21 PM
To: Jared Hirst; Joseph Goldman; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>
Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Global switch Level 4 Hard disk's
Yeah so it just means when/if a fire starts your equipment is completely
SCREWED instead of just some blown drives. I wouldn't say this is an
advantage at all.
Kindest Regards,
Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)
Chief Executive Officer
Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
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From: AusNOG [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] On Behalf Of Jared
Hirst
Sent: Monday, 13 January 2014 4:17 PM
To: Joseph Goldman; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Global switch Level 4 Hard disk's
" but the generality of the fault means it could happen in any major data
center really."
Wouldn't happen in Equinix... They use Dry Pipe and manual fire supression
to alleviate any 'accidental' systems going off :)
I would class that as a pretty major Data Centre.
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From: AusNOG [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] On Behalf Of Joseph
Goldman
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 4:15 PM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Global switch Level 4 Hard disk's
It's not quite so funny when you realise some people may have hours - or
days - worth of headache's ahead of them restoring back to production.
It is an odd circumstance, and one that I would not have thought of
personally in risk mitigation (beyond accounting for fire anyway). Are
there drives rated against this kind of 'shock'? Obviously one should have
Disaster Recovery in place, as the gas suppression going off may indicate
your servers being doused in fire and unusable anyway, but when one can
avoid DR one would, and I'd rather not break on a false positive.
Luckily I don't use Global Switch, but the generality of the fault means
it could happen in any major data center really.
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