[AusNOG] AusNOG Digest, Vol 9, Issue 39

[Carl Gough]

there was no service impact at Equinix - the notice they sent out was purely advisory. Sounds like  someone has got critical systems at the airport without protection.
[carl]
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On 11/11/2012, at 1:00 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:

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>   1. Re: Equinix Aircon failure (Angelo Giuffrida)
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> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:18:42 +1100
> From: Angelo Giuffrida <angelo.giuffrida at gmail.com>
> To: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au>
> Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Equinix Aircon failure
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>> From what I've heard they're moving to Sabre -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system) - much more powerful
> than Navitair's Open Skys/Skylights, so hopefully we see that plus much
> more from their booking engine.
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> On Saturday, 10 November 2012, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> 
>> I just hope Virgin Australia do move to a proper booking system - if you
>> fly internationally with an itinerary of more 2 flights to get to your
>> destination then it's all a bit hard.  (You have to do it all by phone,
>> they lose important facts like you're travelling with kids etc and so sit
>> your kids randomly through the aircraft!).
>> 
>> MMC
>> 
>> On 09/11/2012, at 8:39 PM, John Lindsay <jlindsay at internode.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> Then you've been punked. :-)
>> 
>> Actually I quite like flying with Virgin. Clean, new planes and super
>> friendly staff.
>> 
>> You might enjoy it like a pile of other QF FFs have.
>> 
>> jsl
>> 
>> On 10/11/2012, at 3:06 PM, "Jeffrey Sims" <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Neither actually. :) Not a Y or a Z
>> 
>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:35 PM, John Lindsay <JLindsay at internode.com.au>wrote:
>> 
>> You're gen-y or z right?
>> 
>> Think of it as a lesson in manners.
>> 
>> jsl
>> 
>> On 10/11/2012, at 2:29 PM, "Jeffrey Sims" <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
>> 
>> One thing I will say it's easy to back seat drive when you're not
>> involved but realistically, such a critical system with no DR either in
>> geographically diverse locations or even in the same DC but different rows,
>> power supplies etc?
>> 
>> No DR still in my mind, recipe for disaster...
>> 
>> I feel for all those people jammed in Airports, I might add I was
>> mocking the boss who is on a Virgin flight to day reminding him that QF
>> remains unaffected ;) so he booked my next set of flights with Virgin as
>> retribution.
>> 
>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Michael Keating <mkeating44 at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>> I made a similar comment in Twitter just now. One spot in one data
>> centre for such a critical system?
>> 
>> Without knowing any details about their business, that seems rather
>> slack and obviously doesn't work.
>> 
>> Michael Keating.
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/11/2012, at 1:40 PM, Jeffrey Sims <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
>> 
>>   It looks like the EQUNIX outage blew up airports Australia wide that
>> use Navitare.... whoopsie.
>> 
>> Mind you, this is the second time Navitare has failed without a DR
>> system... you'd think they learnt the first time around.
>> 
>> The outage was caused by a power failure at a Sydney data centre that
>> affected the Navitaire reservations system, explained Jetstar spokesman
>> Stephen Moynihan.
>> Navitaire, a subsidiary of the American firm Accenture, provides check-in
>> and boarding services to all four airlines.
>> Virgin Australia spokeswoman Melissa Thomson said the airline would move
>> to a new IT system next year and would no longer be using the service.
>> 
>> Read more:
>> http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/checkin-restored-further-dela<http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/checkin-restored-further-delays-expected-20121110-294k3.html#ixzz2BmtA2prQ>
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