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January 10th, 2008

Uptime the key issue that drives Disaster Planning

Disaster PlanningThere is an increase in the number of companies and organizations requiring 24 x 365 days of IT uptime. In fact, research indicates that 36% of enterprises indicate they will incur significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact if they have even an hour or less of downtime on their mission-critical applications.

Almost 15% indicate they cannot tolerate any downtime. More and more organizations of all sizes now require applications to be running and data to be always available. The needs of these organizations go far beyond simply recovery, requiring an environment that maintains business continuity during and immediately after a disaster. To make it more interesting, the number and types of applications that require this level of protection is very diverse.

In fact, in the enterprise space 14% of the businesses polled said they cannot tolerate any application downtime. More than 58% cannot tolerate four hours or less of application downtime. All told, more than 80% of Enterprise-class and mid-tier respondents reported that they cannot tolerate more than 24 hours of application unavailability2. What is even more interesting is that survey respondents were not just from the
Financial Sector but also included Government, Manufacturing, Retail and Health Care (including Pharmaceutical). Some of the reasons for these survey results include the following:

  • Disaster PlanningRetail: The critical applications that track point-of-sales data and enable inventory and distribution require applications that are always available. Being able to react quickly to changing conditions can mean the difference between profitability and loss. Online shopping and the customerÂ’s experience are also very important to retailers
    , and downtime is not acceptable.
  • Health Care: With the digitization of medical images and patient records, retaining and ensuring availability of these applications and files is beyond mission-critical. Especially when you consider the pervasive use of technology in the operating room, effectiveness can actually be measured in the number of lives, not just dollars, saved.
  • Manufacturing: Competitive pressures drive companies to run as efficiently as possible. Just-in-time manufacturing processes that coordinate shipments from suppliers around the world demand 24 x 7 availability.
  • Globalization: Companies are becoming increasingly dependent on a global economy. Many have established key technology in “follow-the-sun” modes that require 24 x 7 availability.
  • Increased sensitivity to outages: Business continuity is now a boardroom-level concern. In many cases, it is the CEO who mandates that the business be fully protected. Even worse than an outage itself is the fallout from negative press, loss of customer confidence and, for public companies, potential impact to stock prices.

Regardless of the industry, the trend is clear: more businesses require highly available solutions. Not only is this expanding along industry lines, but we also see mid-tier companies requiring disaster tolerant solutions.

 

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December 19th, 2007

FCC Requires Backup Power For Cell Sites

Christmas came a bit early this year for manufacturers of backup power sources. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has released rules mandating that mobile DRPproviders and local exchange carriers install backup power for cell sites and remote telecom facilities. The rules are a direct response to the communications meltdown after Hurricane Katrina. More recently, the bridge collapse in Minneapolis demonstrated how fragile  (and still inadequate)  the system is. A lesser publicized goal of the 700 MHz auction set for next month is to create a national broadband emergency network. The rules will also require companies to file a plan in six months about how they will meet the new demands.
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December 14th, 2007

Firmware - one more issue to address in your disaster plan

Storage system firmware updates are available as major and minor releases. Companies like EMC Corp. typically provide a major release for its Clariion DRP Firmwarestorage systems about once a year while minor releases come out about once a quarter. Major releases include significant enhancements to storage system features while minor releases provide bug fixes for any issues in the major release. The problems that surface should a company fall behind in its firmware upgrades are increased operational risks as well as delays if fixes are needed.

The need to keep firmware current stems from interoperability problems that emerge whe

n companies change their Fibre Channel SANs. New operating systems, operating system and database upgrades and new Fibre Channel SAN devices constantly introduce new capabilities and features into the SAN. Though storage system vendors typically test for these new features in these products before they are publicly released, companies may need to apply a patch to use them.

Being down two or three major releases also gets problematic. While vendors almost always support older major releases, new patches are based on the last major release. If running an older release, a company may need to wait while a special patch is prepared for them.

Planning firmware upgrades is an easy-to-overlook component of system maintenance. But with many companies in lock-down at this time of year and administrators likely having some free time, December is a good time to plan for and then take the necessary steps to perform a firmware upgrade.  

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December 5th, 2007

Erasing Files A Must For a Secure Environment

DRP backup securityWhen you delete a file from your hard disk, it may seem as if it is gone forever In truth, however, this is not the case.  You must wipe it clear "serveral" times or someone can find traces of the data that was there orginally.

The reason why file deletion is not as thorough as it can be is a simple one; resource management. Actually overwriting every bit of every file that is to be deleted will use more resources than would be practical, for everyday use. And in fact, this simple file deletion is usually sufficient for the basic userÂ’s needs.

The seemingly permanent process of file deletion actually leaves the file data still on the hard disk. When a file is deleted, it is simply marked ‘deleted’, and the space that it occupies on the disk is accordingly marked ‘ready for use’. Hence, it may be overwritten when more disk space is required, but this is by no means certain, unless the entire hard disk is filled with data.

DRP Audit ProgramNow, the actual data that make up the file is still on the hard disk, even after deletion. This makes it available for recovery, usually done using specially designed data recovery programs. MSDOS, in fact, has a built-in UNDELETE command which may recover recently deleted files.

However, secur

ity considerations might necessitate the complete erasure of a given hard disk or collection of hard disks. When reassigning hard disks, for instance, or switching computers around, confidential data might need to be deleted. To lessen the possibility that this data is recovered, a hard disk wipe may be performed.

When a hard disk wipe is performed, the entire area of the hard disk is actually overwritten with random data. This means that the data that used to be on the hard disk becomes much harder (practically impossible) to recover after such a process. Almost no traces of the previous data that used to be on the disk is left, making a hard disk wipe a secure improvement upon ordinary file deletion.

Security Audit ProgramThe metadata or information on the data that used to be on the hard disk is also wiped clean, since the entire space of the hard disk is overwritten. The randomness of this data used to overwrite depends on the algorithm used to generate it. Some hard disk wipe programs give users the choice to select the algorithm they want the program to use. However this is not as necessary for hard disk wipe programs as it is for file shredder programs, which wipe individual files. This is because when it is the entire hard disk that is wiped, the degree of randomness of the overwriting data is not anymore as important.

Performing a hard disk wipe is often as easy as clicking a few buttons in a specially designed hard disk wipe program. Some programs are set to run automatically when a CD containing the program is placed into the computer containing the hard disk to be wiped. This makes it easier to perform batch wipes on many computers at once, and makes the hard disk wipe a feasible security solution for multiple hard disks.
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November 20th, 2007

Emergency Power Off Can Cause Havoc During a Disaster

EPO (Emergency Power Off), this feature on UPS systems can cause many problems to the smooth running of the power protection installation.

Disaster PlanThe primary reason for having this feature is to enable the UPS system to be 'made safe' in the event of an emergency. Operation of the Emergency Power Off will, with most uninterruptible power supplies, stop the inverter and rectifier (charger) and disconnect the battery. Due to the economics of size and cost, in a number of cases operation of the EPO circuit may just stop the inverter.

Disaster Plan AuditA typical example of a situation when there is a need to remove power to equipment in an emergency situation is in the case of fire. An un-interruptible power supply by its very name means that when the building is isolated it will continue to provide an output until the batteries are exhausted. The continued supply of power in these situations can lead to additional fires as cables are damaged by the original cause. The EPO in this situation is often connected to the fire alarm panel and will operate on the second and subsequent detection of fire within a defined area.

One of the major problems with Emergency Power Off circuits is that when they are originally installed everyone understands the concept and requirements to reset the circuit and restore the UPS system to normal operation. However as the years pass this knowledge is forgotten and when the UPS system suddenly stops for no reason it can take considerable time to identify the circuit that is causing the problem.

In effect, your un-interruptible power supplies suddenly are no longer uninterruptible once the EPO has been activated.

You must be very careful where the EPO is positioned, to avoid accidental or malicious use. Certainly each EPO needs to be monitored and covered y CCTV at the very least.

Security AuditWhen the service engineer is called to site, they are looking for a failure within the UPS system, not normally the external circuits and re-establishing power to the load can take longer than expected.

SOX auditFurther problems with EPO circuits can be caused during the original installation of the UPS system where the designer, trying to make the operation of the EPO more secure may also connect the under-voltage trips of circuit breakers supplying the UPS system. This can make the service engineer's task even more daunting as there are normally few circuit diagrams available at the time of the incident and considerable time can be lost in tracing the circuits to restore supply to the load. Typically, in spite of any perceived problems with the UPS system at this time, the circuit to the maintenance bypass is not available either as it has tripped due to the operation of the EPO circuit so power can still not be restored to the load.

To assist with rapid restoration of supply to the load at the time of installation a laminated circuit diagram attached to the UPS system showing the circuit breakers feeding the UPS system, the load and their locations. In addition the operation of the EPO circuit should also be shown.
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November 2nd, 2007

New Business Continuity Audit Program

Business Continuity Audit Program works in concert with the Security Audit Program

Business Continuity Audit Program

 

 

Janco Associates announced the availability of its awaited Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Audit Program.

Both of these audit programs are ones that either an external auditor, internal auditor can use to validate the compliance of the information technology function and the enterprise to ISO 17799, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.

The DRP/BCP audit program was created to work in concert with the Janco IT infrastructure tools including;

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October 24th, 2007

Good DRP Lets IT Staff Act In Advance of Wildfires

 

A wild weekend for the IT crew Disaster Planning

(Computerworld) -- The first warning that the CIO of Pepperdine University, had of the wildfire that would threaten the Malibu, Calif., campus came when the power went out in his home. It was 5 a.m. Sunday.

Within a matter of hours, brush fires came within 100 feet of the data center, and there was a point where we had serious concern that the data center itself was going to be jeopardized.

Chester was not the only one on campus who moved into action. Other administrators were responding as well, and by 5:30 a.m., the campus administration had called a meeting of the university Emergency Operations Committee.

On Sunday morning, however, Chester was by no means certain of the fires outcome. IT staff had been paged, and a half-dozen staffers were working to ensure that the data was safe.

Wildfires are an ongoing threat in the area, and the university is prepared for that contingency as well as other threats. It routinely sends its backup tapes to Iron Mountain Inc. for protection. In addition, the latest tape backup copies were moved to a fireproof safe. The ERP applications were shut down, and the hard drives were removed and also safely stored. All that work was completed in 35 minutes.

The whole purpose of planning is to make sure you have always got options so that when you find yourself in a situation, you are familiar what those options are as opposed to having to think them through with very little response time.

While the IT staff scrambled, the fire advanced toward the data center building and nearby university administration building. They had about 10 minutes notice that the fire was coming down the hill this way.

Firefighters from Los Angeles County and other jurisdictions acted immediately. There were about 25 firefighters in the way of the advancing fire whose entire goal was to protect the buildings. They were able to contain those fires and keep them from spreading further.

The Pepperdine University Data Center never went offline, ensuring the campus of network services, including voice communications.

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October 13th, 2007

IT Infrastructure After a Disaster Solution Offered by IBM and CISCO

Disaster Recovery(IT Jungle) When a disaster like Katrina hits, large swaths of infrastructure, such as power grids and communication lines, are taken out, compounding the difficulties of recovery. To help companies, organizations, and first-responders cope during the first hours or days following a disaster, IBM and Cisco Systems yesterday unveiled a new service that bundles electrical generators, phones, satellite and wireless connections, Windows servers, and software into portable units that can be transported by foot or truck into a disaster area.

 

IT InfrastructureIBM's Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) is no stranger to disasters. The IBM division, like its primary competitor Sungard, maintains scores of data centers across the continent running thousands of servers that can be used to recover clients' operations and keep it going for a while if their primary IT resources go down.

 

The Crisis Response offerings are pre-bundled packages that are designed to provide a one-stop emergency response communications network. Instead of forcing companies, governmental organizations, and first-responder groups to work with different vendors to assemble the equipment and communication services they'll need to establish a presence at the site of a disaster, the Crisis Reponses offering puts it all together for them.

 

Security AuditIBM and Cisco unveiled four Crisis Response offerings yesterday at FOSE. They include the tactical communications kit (TCK), a suitcase-size kit that includes a BGAN satellite antenna that provides up to 300 kbps of voice or data bandwidth that can be shared among wired and wireless phones and computers. It ships with two wired phones and four wireless handsets that nestle in the lid, but it can support up to 16 phones, although only eight can be used at any given moment. The offerings also include a "fog cutter" (FC) device, which is a server-rack-size module that provides voice, data, and video capabilities as a mobile or fixed asset.

 

DRP SecurityMoving up in size, we have the network emergency response vehicle (NERV I), a sport utility vehicle (SUV) providing a medium-scale network, communications and information-based services. At the top of the Crisis Response food chain is the command network emergency response vehicle (NERV III), a heavy-duty, six-wheeled truck that delivers a large-scale network, communications, and information-based services.

 

Janco has all of the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Templates that enterprises of all sizes can use.

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October 3rd, 2007

DRP should focus on more than natural disasters

Audit ProgramHistorically, business continuity plans have tended to focus on natural disasters: fires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes. Security breaches must also be part of the overall plan. A virus-driven system failure could spread very quickly, compromising an entire world-wide enterprise. Any options proposed by a continuity plan should comply with existing production security standards and policies. Even if an enterprise is running in disaster mode, security procedures should not be compromised. Some minor disasters should even be engineered as way to gain entry to company systems and access to sensitive information.

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September 25th, 2007

Mid-Size Business Disaster Recovery Plan a Must

Disaster Recovery PlanIn enterprise level businesses, disaster recovery plans are often inadequate or outdated and in small to mid-sized businesses the situation is even worse: only a relatively small percentage have any form of plan. Why do so many businesses have such a lackadaisical approach to disaster recovery planning? Probably because it is a long and complicated process that ties up key personnel, can be costly to produce, and will change over time so it has a limited shelf life. And why spend time producing a document that may well never be needed? But any enterprise that ignores a DRP is gambling that a disaster will not strike and gambling with the livelihood of its employees and with the investments of shareholders and stakeholders. Why take such an unnecessary gamble? Why expose your business to such an unnecessary risk? - more info 


September 21st, 2007

Compliance Regulations and Requirments Add to DRP and Business Continuity Planning

Sarbanes-OxleyCompanies are now more accountable for how information is stored, used and distributed - so it is imperative that data is managed and controlled correctly. In the United States, new legislation around the privacy of health and medical information enshrined in HIPAA rules, the need for financial and accounting compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley and new SEC controls related to share dealing scandals have raised the cost to business of noncompliance. In Europe, the Data Protection Act, Basel II, FSA regulations and EU94/96 are acting in the same fashion. All of this legislation forces companies to provide clear audit trails to ensure that email from their employees complies with financial disclosure and privacy regulations. In the United States and Europe, fines for non-compliance are potentially crippling and jail sentences for company directors who fall foul of the law are common. Businesses now have a legal requirement to stop their employees from breaching regulations.

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September 19th, 2007

Risk Assessment for your DRP / Business Continuity Plan

Risk AssessmentBusiness continuity is when an organization establishes proactive and reactive plans to help avoid crises and disasters, and quickly return to business as usual, should they occur. Do you have plans and technologies in place that prepare you for unexpected downtime?

Janco Associates know how important continuous business operations can be in an environment where one hour of system, application or web downtime can cost you more than you can afford. To help and identify the risks you face, Janco has a Business and IT Impact Impact Questionnaire

Take a few minutes to review the content of the questionnaire which provides you key materials that look at risk froma a business continuity concept to implementation viewpoint. This questionnaie is designed for comfortable reading and navigation.

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September 9th, 2007

Back-up as a Service Model and Portable Devices Raise Security Issues

Back-up and recovery optionsWith the advent of USB large capacity storage and web based back-up services, the world of disaster recovery and business continuity is rapidly changing.  That is at the cost of serious security risks for enterprises as critical and confidential information is dispersed across many platforms and exposed to more opportunities for theft and loss. 

 

Violations to PCI DSS standards and Sarbanes Oxley Section 404 requirements are an area of focus that everyone needs to be concerned about.  The Security Manual Template and Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template address these isses.

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August 29th, 2007

Janco Disaster and Business Continuity Now the International Standard

Disaster PlanDisaster Recovery Business Continuity Template Now Accepted as the International Standard

Version 4.4 of the Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template has just been released by Janco Associates..

Park City, UT – The Disaster Recovery Business Continuity template has been sold to enterprise in over 65 countries around the globe.  With the release a of version 4.4 of the template it is in complete compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, ITIL (Ver 3), ISO 17799, and PCI DSS.

M V Janulaitis the CEO of Janco said, "Our DRP /BCP Template has been accepted by enterprise around the globe as the standard for disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan creation." In response to that need Janco has updated its "Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template" by increasing the content of the template as well as updating the entire document to be compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, ITIL (Ver. 3), ISO 17799, and PCI DSS.

The Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan has been purchased for use in over 65 countries around the globe including:

  • Angola
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Columbia
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Egypt
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Lebanon
  • Lithuania
  • Macao
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Panama
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Swaziland
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Uganda
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Venezuela
  • Zambia

The Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan has been purchased for use in  government, public, and private enterprises in almost all industries including:

  • Federal Government
  • State Governments
  • Local Governments
  • Law Firms
  • Think Tanks
  • Chemical
  • Telecommunication
  • Real Estate
  • Manufacturing
  • Universities
  • School Districts
  • Consulting Firms
  • Banks
  • Financial Service
  • Investment Banks
  • Credit Unions
  • Outsourcers
  • Property Mgt
  • Heavy Industry
  • Light Industry
  • Distribution
  • Retail
  • Hospitality
  • Energy
  • Insurance
  • Medical
  • ISPs
  • Application Development
  • Construction
  • Graphics
  • Entertainment
  • Paper Products
  • Defense
  • Aerospace
  • Media
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August 28th, 2007

Is Your Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Plan up to date?

Disaster RecoveryIt used to be easy to create a Disaster Recovery plan.  You would back up your mainframe every evening  or at least over the weekend and then ship the backu-up tapes off-site.   Now you have to worry about much more.

  •  Mainframe
  • Departmental File Servers
  • Branch Offices & Retail Locations
  • Wireless Network File Servers
  • Data at Outsourced Sites
  • Desktop workstations
  • Laptop Work Stations
  • PDAs and Smart phones

The latest version of JancoÂ’s Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template addresses each of these areas.  Click here to download the Table of Contents for the template.

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August 16th, 2007

WiFi After a Disaster

DRP Security(IT Business Edge) Are municipal wireless projects better positioned as primarily infrastructure to aid government and business or consumers and tourists? Of course, an existing network, no matter who it primarily serves on a normal day,  can be put to good use in an emergency. We're not too sure how great the technical differences are between the two approaches. The point is that the distinction can be vital during the critical funding phase. It's instructive to examine the story of how the subsidiary of U.S. Internet that is working on Wireless Minneapolis pitched in when a bridge spanning the Mississippi collapsed. As the tragedy unfolded, the subsidiary disabled the network's paid log-in process, thus making connectivity freely available. Within hours, about six times the normal 1,000 paid users were on the system. - more info 


August 13th, 2007

Disasters Don't Care If You're Ready

Unforeseen events that disrupt business will happen. It's just a matter of time. Disasters impact everyone, but technology is usually burdened the most because it's your job to get the operation back up and running! So, you never want to get stuck without a plan.

The Disaster Recovery Plan Template is a freshly-updated resource available to subscribers that will quickly and logically guide you through the planning process. From viruses to hurricanes, this resource will help your company respond to any type of technology-related disaster and minimize your business downtime.

Make Sure Your Business is Not a Casualty of the Next Big Disaster

The Disaster Recovery Plan Template is a practical tool that can help any organization work through the nuts and bolts of disaster recovery planning. Taking a consequences-based approach, this resource will help your company respond to multiple types of technology related disasters, from virus incidents to hurricanes.

This newly updated package, produced by Janco Associates, has all of the information and tools you need to prepare Disaster Recovery Plan documents that meet your business specific needs.

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August 9th, 2007

Cisco Web Site Goes Down!!!!!

Business Continuity(Computerworld) -- A power outage caused by an accident at a San Jose, Calif., data center blacked out the Cisco.com site for three hours today.

Cisco was able to communicate the problem over its official blog, but word about the cause came via e-mail from a spokeswoman at 5 p.m. EST.

We have traced the cause of the issue to an accident during maintenance of a San Jose data center that resulted in a power outage in that facility, the spokeswoman said. We would like to thank our customers and partners for their patience. We expect to resolve the issue shortly.

Users around the U.S. reported the outage sometime before 2 p.m. EST via various blogs, and then noted that service was restored about 4:50 p.m. EST.

Cisco did not describe the duration of the outage or exactly what happened and why a backup system was not available to quickly restore service, as would be common with a large Web site -- especially one run by the largest networking vendor in the world.

Bloggers questioned what was happening, and asked whether such a normally resilient site could have been attacked before they found out about the data center accident.

With all its mighty power, network behemoth's main website www.cisco.com is down, wrote slidersv at Slashdot. No news describing the reason as of now. I have tried accessing the site for the past hour, since our operations heavily rely on Cisco online documentation, with no luck. After all the advocacy of high-availability, security and performance.... Oh, the irony.

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August 9th, 2007

Business Contunity is now more of a challenge

Business ContinuityWith expectations for system availability continually increasing and more businesses relying on 24 x 7 mission-critical applications, disaster recovery planning has risen to the forefront of IT's priorities. But complexities and costs associated with implementing a comprehensive data protection strategy often keep the vision from becoming reality, whether due to time, bandwidth and budget restraints.

The DRP / BC is the one answer that we can all agree on.  It is current, meets all mandated needs like Sarbanes-Oxley, and is compliant to ITIL.

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August 1st, 2007

Back-up Power Failure Shuts down Major Web Host Provider

(IDG News Service) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- A Web hosting company cited a faulty controller as the reason its backup electrical system failed during a San Francisco power outage last week, dousing the Web sites of several customers.

Service was interrupted to 40% of 365 Main Inc.'s customers when an electrical surge caused
Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the local utility, to shut off power. Three of 10 backup generators failed to start at 365 Main, and the Web sites Craigslist.com, RedEnvelope.com, Yelp.com, Technorati.com and others went down for about 45 minutes.

365 Main traced the generator failures to a weakness in a controller in backup diesel generators. An incorrect setting on the device -- called a DDEC, for Detroit Diesel Electronic Controller -- was not allowing it to correctly reset its memory. Erroneous data left in the DDECs memory subsequently caused the diesel generators to misfire or fail to start, the company said.

365 Main corrected the settings on all the generators at its San Francisco data center and at another center it operates in El Segundo, Calif., because both use the same model of generators from Hitec Power Protection Ltd. Three other 365 Main data centers use other Hitec models.

The power outage resulted in 365 Main breaking the service-level agreements it has with its client Web sites. As a result, 365 Main said it will refund a portion of the monthly Web hosting fee that clients pay.

Even with last weeks outage, the San Francisco data center has delivered 99.9942% uptime, but that is no consolation to clients whose Web sites were out of service.

What we learned from this is that there remains a delta between any number of 9s and perfection.

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