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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Deepak Jain wrote:Hi Mikael, The speed with which fibre can be pulled will very much depend on the available paths and other resources. It may be that the previous path of the damaged fibre may now be blocked or otherwise unavailable such that construction work is required. As you say it is likely to be more difficult to recover from a problem at a datacentre due to the greater potential for damage and diversity of resources required. The point has already been made that not all customers may be able to avail of site resilience due to the associated cost, and so may be reliant on the one datacentre. In addition one thing which I do not think has been mentioned is that damage to a building may make the site unsafe and possibly injure staff; perhaps causing planning, coordination and implementation of site recovery to be considerably more complicated than simply replacing equipment. Most customers would not be willing to pay extra to get hardened datacentres, so despite the complexities of recovery Deepak is largely right when he said that no one cares about blast proof server farms, at least in the peaceful parts of the world. Paul.
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