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Rachel Warren wrote: > > > > The suitcase nuclear bomb that takes out my facility in one location > > > is very likely to take out my other facility in the same metro area. > > > And probably all the customers who would remotely care. > > > > I don't know about the others in this thread, but the suitcase > > nuclear bomb is well outside the types of things I worry about > > protecting against, and in fact were one to explode I think 'lack > > of internet access' would be _WAY_ down on my list of priorities. > > Hopefully Sean was being a bit over the top. :) > > A bomb threat is definately something to worry about, though. I wish I > remembered more of the details or a news article to substantiate, but what > I do remember about a year ago was a bomb threat at the non-ghetto MAE-EAST > facility in Vienna, VA (I remember we were all wondering why all the WCOM > people were leaving the building). > > If a bomb (threat) actually had occured, things would have definately > been unhappy. > > Rachel > > -- > But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Thoreau Once upon a time, while talking with a customer about a particular LA datacenter's fault tolerant features (you know, generators, UPS, HVAC, diverse fiber entrances, etc...), they very calmly asked me what procedures we had in place in the event that a major earthquake struck the southland and dropped LA into the ocean or otherwise put the city underwater. I told them very bluntly that if an earthquake of that magnitude were to hit LA, I would *not* be overly concerned with their servers/circuit/etc., assuming I was still breathing. They were quite taken aback. ;) Grant -- Grant A. Kirkwood - [email protected] Chief Technology Officer - Virtical Solutions, Inc. http://www.virtical.net/
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