| reply to smcallah
Re: the backup has to be switched on?! I work in a hospital and have personally been here during power outages (including the "Great Northeast Blackout" in 2003). In every case, the lights turned off (as they aren't on the generator), but the servers kept running smoothly. The generators kicked on within milliseconds (I'm guessing since I can't time that quickly) of the power loss and kept the servers running fine.
Now, if a medium-sized health care organization/hospital can do this, why not a large data center? Especially one that just that day touted it's backup power generators. If anything, they should be able to outlast us during a long power outage. |
