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- SubjectiveC, on 09/01/2008, -0/+35IT manager watches on the TV: "Scientist believe Hurricane Gustav is gaining strength as it threatens to destroy thousands of homes and forever change the lives of many more residents of the area".
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My god, my servers! - InspectorGadget, on 09/01/2008, -2/+30I hope nobody was actually stupid enough to locate a datacenter in a flood plain, within an area noted for hurricane activity, three years after Katrina.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -12/+39Sarah Palin has a secret hurricane maker in her home. Reports from the huffington post say she hates New Orleans and possibly planning to blow up the levees.
- MJG2007, on 09/01/2008, -1/+19IT Guy: Delta Internet Service, how can I help you?
Person on phone: Dude our, like, internet went out and we can't play World of Warcraft.
IT Guy: That's because their's a ***** hurricane!
Person on phone: Sweet! How soon can you get out here and get it fixed? - spiritflare1, on 09/01/2008, -0/+15this is the week you don't want to be on-call.
- Stroggoth, on 09/01/2008, -0/+12I hope nobody was stupid enough to rebuild a coastal city prone to flooding and hurricanes, when it was severely damaged by one just three years ago, much less a datacenter. I was in New Orleans just this year and the levees on the Mississippi aren't exactly robust. The number of canals into the area north of the city (where most of the flood waters came from last time) is staggering. Further, the causeway over the water to the city proper was not yet completely rebuilt from the previous hurricane. You couldn't pay me to live there.
- SuperJimmyJimbo, on 09/01/2008, -2/+12yeah- they have a live feed up:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hurricam!--a-live-ca ... - brennerh, on 09/01/2008, -1/+11Articles like this show just how nerdy Digg is.
- Alias1431, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7Wtf, they can backup their entire company's data on a 1TB external HD?
- bonlebon, on 09/01/2008, -3/+10A huff and a puff does not constitute an act of violence.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -1/+8Maybe because its the most highly populated area?
- benologist, on 09/01/2008, -1/+7There was a datacenter that had a couple of cams up and some guy blogging during Katrina for as long as they had power and connectivity.
http://interdictor.livejournal.com/ - jflaker, on 09/01/2008, -0/+6You will probably destroy the convection but the "storm" remnants will likely continue it's path and bring radio active fallout.
I think I would rather deal with regular elements than radio active rain. - IndustrialJones, on 09/01/2008, -1/+7Why is the focus always on New Orleans? I live here in Biloxi and we got hit pretty damn hard as well.
- jflaker, on 09/01/2008, -0/+6My last company asked that I bring disks off-site to my house. I refused to have that kind of information in my hands or to be responsible for the company's data........the best solution is a High Availability solution which accidentally becomes a Disaster recovery solution as your data is real-time replicated from corporate to the remote site.
One company in the World Trade Center in NYC figured that out when they purchased a NJ company. They merged their data and ran both site's systems in parallel........When the building fell, it wasn't event noticed that the headquarters office was gone......it was business as usual at the remote site in NJ....besides the fact that emails were no longer being replied to. - jflaker, on 09/01/2008, -0/+5Such it is in the life of IT. You create a disaster plan. You "Test" your disaster plan. You tweak your disaster plan.
The auditors come and you demonstrate your disaster plan.
The thing is, all this planning and "testing" is all a mock drill. It is said that 90% of the best disaster plans will fail when executed in an actual disaster because of the "unseen" exceptions.
SO, the New Orleans IT department not only had a chance to actually USE their plan in 2005. Lessons learned from that event most likely resulted in MANY sweeping changes to the plan and they may get to Test it again in a real world scenario.
Advice for the IT Director and/or the CIO. TAKE NOTES and WRITE IT ALL UP. We need real life actuals for disaster planning and more importantly DISASTER RECOVERY.......you can possibly become the foremost EXPERT! - Vectorkov, on 09/01/2008, -2/+7They care about the communication infrastructure that enables the economy, stores vital data like health records, and monitors countless vital systems
- pw378, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4Using a nuke to try to affect a hurricane would be like pissing at a firehose...
- Stroggoth, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4I agree with you that it is as stupid as living in any area with a large natural disaster risk, and yes it is Russian Roulette. Your last bit about this not being feasible - there are many inexpensive cities with better economies than New Orleans. People who cared about the risk should have moved out when property prices were recovering. It is obvious that the next 20 years are going to bring many many hurricanes to the city. So either build your home on raised land and out of concrete and stone, or get packing. In Asia, where some of the coastal areas get pelted with massive storms like these, they build everything from concrete so it can withstand it.
- gtluke, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4cheney is showing palin how the weather machine works
- pearcewg, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4George Bush hates Louisiana Datacenters!
- plup, on 09/01/2008, -2/+5- We evacuating. They hating.
- glasnt, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3They all hate us cos they think we're wet and twirly
- Jhiaxuz, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3It's no more stupid than rebuilding a house in any kind of area which is prone to destructive natural disasters. If I owned property and it was on the fringe of getting destroyed year after year until it does happen than there would be no chance in hell I would take that kind of risk again. You're already playing Russian Roulette by living in said places.
Unfortunately, this is just not a feasible solution as the land we occupy is limited compared to our almost limitless population. - chrispix, on 09/01/2008, -0/+33000 + viewers
- inigomntoya, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3Nice one. I hope they learnt their lessons. /s
- jgtg32a, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3Wikipedia says that Biloxi is 70% white ... just saying
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biloxi,_Mississippi#D ... - ChuqAU, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2Like Silicon Valley? Oh wait ...
- tiuk, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2I remember reading his blog while it was all going on. Really cool perspective of the events.
- peterinjapan, on 09/01/2008, -1/+3Actually, your comment is stupid. I can't believe you were dugg up at all.
- zwaldowski, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2Water makes things wet.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2But did you run it on the simulator? Perhaps running it on a simulator might reveal more information. Perhaps they should try this using the LHC.
- sjbdallas, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2For some reason they like to think of themselves as heroic or resilient because they don't let mother nature break their will. Anyone with even an ounce of common sense would let the ocean take that stinkhole and move about 20 miles north.
- secrity, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2If either my home or my production servers were damaged by a hurricane it would certainly make my life hell, but I would be able to rebuild.
My servers are insured, the data and configurations are backed up in safe places, I have disaster recovery servers in a different city. and my DR servers are tested periodically.
My home has insurance against hurricanes and flooding, my important papers are in a secure location, I have emergency food and water, and I know how to find temporary alternate living arrangements. - zwaldowski, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2Nice, it must suck to be them. My stepdad works for Time Warner Cable and would have to do that same sort of ***** if a hurricane hit us.
Hell, that might be this weekend. Any South Carolinian diggers? - Skooma714, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2You don't have Mardi Gras. Beer and titties make the world go round.
- rescu911, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2Too bad Katrina didn't happen during an election year. Things would have been so much different.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Much like Megatron, Gustav laughs at your puny mortal megatonnage!!
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 09/01/2008, -1/+2Well look at Hurricane Gustav showing up to remind the nation about the Republican administration's failure at handling Katrina just in time for their convention.
Couldn't be more timely and poignant if Bushco was caught with their pants down AGAIN by yet another terrorist attack on our soil. After all, it was on their watch that 9-11 happened, wasn't it? - IndustrialJones, on 09/01/2008, -2/+3Yep, it still sucks imo :P
- BossKey, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1...or like throwing water on a grease fire...
- slapthemonkey, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Once bitten, twice shy
- chrispix, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Why don't they take a clue and pickup and move their IT infrastructure to somewhere that is not quite so vunerable to hurricanes?
- cheekybastard, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1VMWare SRM? Damn, the cost for implementation and maintenance would be too high for anyone, but larger companies. Someone with less than 5 servers is going to have a hard time justifying the cost.
DoubleTake, Neverfail or DFSR to colo'd servers would be cheaper solution. - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Ok. But did any of you try it on the simulator?
- cluckinchicken, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1Offsite email hosting, offsite web hosting...Why not just pickup and move the whole bloody business? This won't be the last hurricane they experience...
- bipolarruledout, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Tip: Backup generators run most efficiently when they aren't covered in water.
- bipolarruledout, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1How much downtime can you afford? Virtual machines are great because they are hardware independent. Server down? Boot your last backup on a new box even if it's on the other side of the country.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Even if I give you 100 million dollars? You could buy a boat and sit it out. Easy.
- TSK05, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1You're an idiot, 12 employees is a medium sized company.
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