How Data Center Operator IPR Survived Sandy 50
Nerval's Lobster writes "At the end of October, Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern seaboard of the United States, leaving massive amounts of property damage in its wake. Data center operators in Sandy's path were forced to take extreme measures to keep their systems up and running. While flooding and winds knocked some of them out of commission, others managed to keep their infrastructure online until the crisis passed. In our previous interview, we spoke with CoreSite, a Manhattan-based data center that endured even as much of New York City went without power. For this installment, Slashdot Datacenter sat down with executives from IPR, which operates two data centers—in Wilmington, Delaware and Reading, Pennsylvania—close to Sandy's track as it made landfall over New Jersey and pushed northwest."
Duh, just outsource it to India (Score:5, Funny)
My friend Rahul and Sameer will take care of your needs, and are to be speaking excellent English, most also.
tl;dr version (Score:3, Funny)
"We didn't do anything special; our power never went out."
My Datacenter Had Perfect Uptime (Score:5, Funny)
Please write a Slashdot article about me. Also, please conveniently ignore the fact that my datacenter is in Kansas City, MO.