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The current, as of 10a.m. on Thursday August 30, status of power outages in New Orleans is shown below. Entergy, the local utility, has 10,000 workers deployed to restore power.
Legend: Blue = 1 to 50, Yellow = 51 to 250 and Red = 251 to 1,000 power outages. Red lines are failed power lines.
Here is a live view of wind speeds as reported hint.fm/wind. This image shows the measured sustained wind speed in New Orleans at 10:00a.m. today.
It has been a busy couple of days for Global Data Vault, but things are going well. As the storm approached, we reviewed the status of data protection for all customers in the area that was expected to be affected by Hurricane Isaac. We proactively contacted those that may have needed help. We know their data protection schedules and we can compare the freshness of our versions of their data to see if support is needed. As the storm hit, all data was current.
We’re already providing disaster recoveries to customers in New Orleans, and in many cases, we are bringing their systems live in hosted environments on our Dallas data center. As the storm moves on slowly, we expect to continue in this role for at least the next few days.
A computer glitch stopped trading for 40 minutes in more than 200 stocks at the New York Stock Exchange today. One of the key computer servers used to conduct trading lost connectivity to the trading network. As a result, stocks such as General Electric and ExxonMobil were unable to be traded.
Until a backup server was put in place, trading in those shares was stopped on the floor and the world witnessed the NYSE in chaos. Any trades sent to the NYSE during the time of the outrage were immediately cancelled and the brokers were notified. If a trade was denied during the time the NYSE’s system was down, it would have been rerouted temporarily to an alternative market or exchange. NYSE spokesman Ray Pellecchia stated, “We’ll review the problem tonight, but it’s back to business as usual.”
While we recognize the complexity of running the NYSE is vast, it seems like anything this important to the U.S. and world economy should have better data protection and continuity plans in place. One has to wonder the cost in lost trades and missed opportunities.
The Boston Globe and other outlets reported this weekend that Carbonite lost data for 7,500 customers. Many of these customers were able to make fresh backups before they suffered any real losses. Some, however, were not. Those who were not recieved apologies and credits. All 7,500 most likely lost any prior versions (if Carbonite even keeps prior versions).
In a nutshell, the fundamental difference between Carbonite and Global Data Vault (more…)