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The biggest loss caused by data center accidents is often not a direct economic loss of several million dollars. For many well-known brands and listed companies, its adverse impact on the invisible value of brands and stock prices will be the most troublesome. And some loss can be avoided if heat dispassion of data center is good. Now, Let us introduce some weird data center accidents in history.
On the afternoon of February 18, 2014, it was a working day for producing the statewide payroll of Iowa State, and an electrical fire broke out in the main data center. CIO of Iowa Robert von Wolffradt recalls in a blog that IT staff didn’t expect this to happen beforehand, and they had been preparing a contingency plan for the blizzard that night. After the fire broke out at 3 pm, the data center was cut off, the entire building was filled with smoke, and the staff had to evacuate. The fire alarm triggered the data center's natural gas-fueled FM-200 fire suppression system, and the fire was controlled in a wall-mounted transient voltage suppression box. The device which melts due to overheating controls the current entering the data center.
Three and a half hours after the fire broke out, state officials determined that they could re-enter the data center. The entire staff started work immediately to clean up the data center's residuum, and the IT staff restored the storage connectivity network, firewall, and network core system by 9 pm. Wolffradt decided to replace the suppression box anyway. Otherwise, turning the box on would put the device in jeopardy. Besides, he has staffed the backup data center as a precaution. At 11 pm, the system was back online, including the cameras needed by the service desk and the Department of Transportation to monitor bridges and roads in the upcoming blizzard. In addition, financial systems and virtualization applications are being restored. In the evening, the extra system was put into operation, and the standby data center in the morning did not need to take over the work of paying the statewide salary.
On April 20, 2014, a fire broke out in the middle floor of an office building in Gwache City, South Korea. The fire started from Samsung's SDS data center in the building. According to Data Center Knowledge, Samsung's IT staff and building occupants were evacuated quickly. Only one staff member was slightly injured by falling debris.
Because of the fire, Samsung users were unable to access the data. Before the second data center in Gwache City resumed service, the majority of device users could not access the content for several hours. Finally, the Samsung staff had to open a blog to apologize to the public.
On July 3, 2009, a fire in a power distribution room at Seattle's Fisher Square led to the Authorize.net payment portal, Microsoft Bing Travel Service, Geocaching.com service, Dotster domain registration service, hosting provider AdHost and Dozens of websites broke down. Power was restored the next morning.
The Puget Sound Business Magazine reported that Geocaching and AdHost did not resume operation until 10 am the next day, while other service sites took longer to recover. According to reports, the fire began to emerge from the burnt cable duct apparently, causing Fisher Communications to estimate a $10 million repair and equipment replacement fee.
Data center accidents can cause immeasurable loss,but it can be avoided to some extend by installing some heat sink products.
