Fire at Samsung data centre causes outage of Samsung device services

[pctech]

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/04/20/data-center-fire-leads-outage-samsung-devices/

[Simon]

F... F... F... Fire!!

[pctech]

indeed, does make you think though about how dependent on these facilities we are becoming although obviously banks and telecomes providers have always had data centres but not had as many outages as they have of late

This video kind of illustrates the point although of course Intel made it to sell microprocessors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TN3HpvqAZs

[Glenn]

As with most electrical devices, they run on smoke, let it out and it stops working.

[Technical Ben]

indeed, does make you think though about how dependent on these facilities we are becoming although obviously banks and telecomes providers have always had data centres but not had as many outages as they have of late

This video kind of illustrates the point although of course Intel made it to sell microprocessors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TN3HpvqAZs

There is the right way to do things and the wrong way... oh and the "cheap way".

I think it was Steam/Valve (found a security video of the incident, but google search is useless for historic events, as it only gives most popular/recent news ) who had a centre go down due to fire and just "fall over" and users be none the wiser. But then again, they had 2 for that reason.

[pctech]

Yes we have similar arrangements at work.