Tuesday, July 7, 2009

How the Seattle data center fire caught companies unprepared

Allrecipes.com had been working for the past year to build geographic redundancy into its online systems, planning to open a new co-location facility in New York by the end of August.

Last week, the wisdom of that plan became clear -- but not in a good way. Allrecipes was among dozens of sites shut down by the fire and subsequent power outage at Seattle's Fisher Plaza data center.

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