1. Major Data Centers Report No Earthquake Damage

    Data Center Knowledge Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing
    Major Data Centers Report No Earthquake Damage
    Today’s earthquake on the East Coast of the U.S. appears to have been a non-event for the region’s data centers, many of which are located in Virginia, where the epicenter of the quake was located. Terremark, whose NAP of the Capital Region data fortress in Culpeper, Virginia is about 35 miles from the quake’s epicenter in Mineral, Va., reported no issues. Also unaffected was QTS – Quality Technology Services, which operates a huge data center in Richmond. “QTS is pleased to report that neither its Richmond Data Center nor its Jersey City Data Center experienced interruptions,” reported chief technology officer Brian Johnston. ”QTS implements disaster preparedness precautions at each of its 12 state-of-the-art facilities to ensure our customer’s mission-critical data is secure in unlikely events like today’s earthquake.”
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