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    Is Your Data Center Prepared For An Outage?

    by Mike Rinaldi on 8/17/11 2:19 PM

     Data Center Outages In The News

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    Lightning in Dublin Knocks Amazon, Microsoft Data Centers Offline

    A lightning strike has caused power outages at the major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. The incident has caused downtime for many sites using Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform, as well as users of Microsoft’s BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite). 

    Amazon struggles to restore lost data to European cloud customers

    Amazon is struggling to restore customer data lost because of an outage at a data center in Ireland, as developers grow increasingly frustrated over the inability to access applications they have built on top of Amazon's cloud service.

    Is your organization prepared for a data center outage?  Learn more from DVL/Emerson.

    DVL Announces New Data Center Installation At The Microsoft Technology Center in Malvern, PA


    "The challenge with this project was implementing an infrastructure design that would support constant and continuous IT equipment changes while providing a functioning model of a world-class data center."  Read More Here

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    Data Center Outages Can Be Painful

    by Mike Rinaldi on 7/29/11 10:57 AM

    Part Two of National Report reveals costs of unplanned outages can add up to thousands of dollars in a matter of minutes
    Data center downtime comes with a steep price tag, costing businesses more than $5,000 per minute according to a new Ponemon Institute study of U.S.-based data centers.
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    Highlights of the report include:
    • Average cost of data center downtime across industries was approximately $5,600 per minute.
    • The average reported incident length was 90 minutes, resulting in average cost per incident of approximately $505,500.
    • For a total data center outage, which had an average recovery time of 134 minutes, average costs were approximately $680,000.
    • For a partial data center outage, which averaged 59 minutes in length, average costs were approximately $258,000.
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