RE: SB/SV data center fire outage
04-07-2021, 12:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2021, 12:03 PM by Werehawk.)
04-07-2021, 12:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2021, 12:03 PM by Werehawk.)
Replying to Rob Kelk's reply to me...
I'm not an IT professional but I would have thought that having a bit of separation between your potentially flammable power source and your servers would be a logical thing to do from a risk mitigation point of view. However if you must have them in the same structure at least invest in proper physical firewalls and zoned fire suppression systems. I suspect there is probably out there some sort of best practices in design of backup power supplies for data centers and fire suppression systems.
Not to mention the fact that they were using sprinklers instead of a halon system to deal with a potential fire. Water and unprotected electronics do not mix.
I'm not an IT professional but I would have thought that having a bit of separation between your potentially flammable power source and your servers would be a logical thing to do from a risk mitigation point of view. However if you must have them in the same structure at least invest in proper physical firewalls and zoned fire suppression systems. I suspect there is probably out there some sort of best practices in design of backup power supplies for data centers and fire suppression systems.
Not to mention the fact that they were using sprinklers instead of a halon system to deal with a potential fire. Water and unprotected electronics do not mix.