"unplanned maintenance outage"
What, pray, is one of these?
Is it weael words for Cock Up or are they really trying to suggest that some BOFH wandered into work one morning and decided there and then to apply SP3 to the whole lot?
Security biz AVG has been hit by an outage at its US data centre, possibly affecting its customers' email security services across all regions. The US data centre hosting the AVG Business CloudCare Email Security Service was the subject of an unplanned maintenance outage this morning, the company confirmed in a statement. "[ …
@Paul Webb
I remember long ago, installing AVG on some white boxes running Win98se. It was far more efficient than CrackAfee at the time.
I read the above "unplanned maintenance outage" as one of those moments when the best of intentions give you the finger in return.
data centers most certainly do not need computer storage. They need power, they usually need cooling. They usually need walls and a roof. Data center outage to me implies power outage, natural disaster, physical structural damage etc.
Quite likely this facility is shared(AVG doesn't sound like a big company, the facility my company's equipment in is more than 500,000 square feet and we have our 16x8 little corner of it) and probably has dozens to hundreds or more clients in the datacenter.
AVG doesn't sound like a big company
Why not check?
AVG Technologies (formerly named Grisoft) is a Czech company formed in 1991 by Jan Gritzbach and Tomáš Hofer, with corporate offices in Europe and the United States. The company specializes in computer security software. As of February 2, 2015 over 200 million active users [the El Reg article mentions 197 million] used AVG´s software products and services, which include internet security, performance optimization, and personal privacy and identity protection applications.Number of employees 1013 worldwide
Size of company is irrelevant. I know a few small companies that have massive DC's, due to the fact they do a lot of data processing.
Our INTERNAL IT amount to 72 racks in each of our own 2x data centres and we are no means a "big" company. About 50% of these racks use shared storage.
If AVG have their own DC's (I would hope they do, due to the nature of their work), they may well have all their customer facing racks on their own shared storage.
So don't judge your 16x8 in the same context of others.
AVG has a f'up like this roughly every year. And soon recovers.
On the basis that any news is good news, its the quickest way for them to raise their public profile and remind people they're still around. Soon the shares will start creeping up as people begin to notice them again - and register the synergies from the recent takeover of Norman