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JetBlue, Verizon data center downtime raises DR, UPS questions
- 期号: SRE Weekly Issue #7(2016-01-24)
- 作者: —
- 链接: http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/4500271203/JetBlue-Verizon-data-center-downtime-raises-DR-UPS-questions
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An external post-hoc analysis of the recent outage at JetBlue, with speculation on the seeming lack of effective DR plans at JetBlue and Verizon. The article also mentions the massive outage at 365 Main’s San Francisco datacenter in 2007, which is definitely worth a read if you missed that one.
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