Views: 82 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2019-12-03 Origin: Site
The security of the data center computer room is the premise of the normal operation of the network. It has become a part of people's life. Once the data center computer room went wrong, it will bring great losses and inconvenience to enterprises and the public.
In late October 2012, when Hurricane Sandy swept through Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey, Manhattan lost power as most of the East Coast cities of the United States. The sea storm caused many other places in the lower Manhattan and adjacent areas of the three states to become into a vast ocean suddenly.
At the location of Peer Colocation, 75 Broad Street, Lower Manhattan, this was undoubtedly a nightmare for disaster recovery planners. Although the backup generator can be moved to the 18th floor of the building far above the water line, the seawater which poured into the lobby and filled the basement destroyed the emergency generator fuel pumping system. Once immersed in water, the system circuitry no longer works. As a result, the company was unable to obtain new fuel after the generator began to run out of limited fuel. Just as several employees managed to get to the data center and help prevent any data loss, Peer advised customers to shut down the system in a matter of hours.
Instead of shutting down the facility, Peer set up a rescue team to transport the fuel needed for the generator. The fuel is placed on the street and manually transported to the 17th floor, where the generator's storage tank is located. The oil storage tank and the oil pump can deliver fuel to the generator above the floor. On the evening of October 30th until October 31st, the fuel was sent to the generator upstairs. The hurricane did not cause too much lose.
On January 9, 2015, a welder's blowpipe accidentally ignited the building materials next to it, and a building that was originally intended to be the future data center of Amazon's website had a fire. The fire quickly became a three-level fire in a place in Ashburn, Virginia. Smoke can be seen in places a few miles away. The Amazon spokesperson told the ABC News Network local office that the fire caused about $100,000 in damage, but added that it did not affect the risk of Amazon's operations because the data center has not yet been put into use.
In 1989, Canada suffered a solar storm, which caused damage to the transformer. As a result, the power grid of the hydropower company was paralyzed. It is estimated that a small solar storm in the United States in 1859 called the Carrington incident caused several operators who were working to get an electric shock and caused several telegraph offices to catch fire. The 1989 incident led to the failure of the North East Electric Power Coordination Committee and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Committee's circuit breakers and protective equipment, which almost caused a chain reaction collapse in the member grid. After a surge transformer that damaged the generator, a nuclear power plant in New Jersey had to stop running.
It is not difficult to see that data center security incidents have a profound impact on enterprises and users. Actually these data center accidents have sounded an alarm for people. Although we can't predict the natural incident, we can do some preventive measures to protect data center such as install a set of heat sink equipments.
