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Claranet has blamed data centre Global Switch for a power failure early this morning which brought down many of its customers' websites. The problem was caused by a power failure at Global Switch 2 in London - its purpose-built data centre which claims two independent power supplies. The company boasts that it's Europe's …

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  1. pctechxp

    Thought these places....

    were supposed to have ruddy great diesel generators that are suppoed to kick in if the power fails.

    If the ATS fails then surely they can manually switch it cant they?

    Perhaps data centre operators need to stop banging on about how resiliant they are as its not true obviously.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    @pctechxp

    Actually, this place has ruddy great flywheels attached to ruddy great diesel generators - Diesel Rotary UPS, DRUPS. Unfortunately it was a problem with these that appeared to cause the outage. In trying to take the DRUPS out of line and switching to raw mains power they caused a 90sec outage. Not much but enough to cause universal mayhem.

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