Whether they are caused by natural disaster, aging infrastructure, or inadequate supply, blackouts have long been one of our industry’s deepest fears. If your planning and infrastructure are inadequate, a sustained blackout will leave your people scrambling, your servers quiet, and your company frozen.
As “Superstorm Sandy” savagely demonstrated in the fall of 2012, a major disaster can happen at any time. Human tragedy aside, the storm was a wake-up call to the regions data centers, which started to fall one by one as secondary power quickly ran dry. By the end, the lesson was clear: we need some new tools and fresh thinking when it comes to protecting our uptime during power shortages, blackouts, and disasters.