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      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

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    1. “ While many volumes will be restored over the next several hours, we anticipate that it will take 24-48 hours until the process is completed. ”

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  1. Lightning Takes Down Amazon And Microsoft Clouds

    Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 8 2011) Data Center Outages

    1. Lightning Takes Down Amazon And Microsoft Clouds Lightning strikes in Dublin disabled two major data centres and knocked back-up power supplies offline Lightning strikes cut the power to two major Amazon and Microsoft data centres and disabled backup systems in Dublin on Sunday, resulting in up to twelve hours of downtime. Lightning struck a transformer which Amazon said resulted in a fire and an explosion and then a total power outage. As well as Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) services being affected, Microsoft BPOS services also went down. The power of the bolt was such that part of the phase control system that synchronises the backup generators was disabled, said Amazon on its Service Health Dashboard. It said it began investigating connectivity issues at around 03:00 GMT yesterday – twelve hours later it was still grappling to restore 100 percent access. (Read Full Article)

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