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Re: San Francisco power outages imminent
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:46:16 -0400
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 06:30:32PM -0700, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
Actually, thats another question I am somewhat interested in.. what are the policies of various people on testing and excercising generators and other backup equipment? How many customers ask about such things before locating equipment vs just asking "do you have backup power?"
We are very conscious about it, although at some of our data centers we have to rely upon outside folks. In one instance, an individual was signing off every week that he checked the switch, but it turned out that for months he was just signing the sheet and not actually testing anything. In his new job the only thing he has to check is whether or not the customer would like fries. :-) We're building a new main data center that is tornado-proof. Nothing short of a nuke should be able to cause us power issues. Unless Sean Donelan gets ahold of a fusion-powered backhoe...
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