gebraset Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 Google has recently announced that its Saint-Ghislain data center located in Belgium was directly hit by four successive lightning strikes, causing power loss and damage to some of its disk storage. The damage that occurred to Google Compute Engine’s primary storage persistent disks that are located within the aforementioned data center caused some European customers to be without their files for four days. While Google noted that its systems are designed with battery backup, and that automatic auxiliary systems restored power quickly, the company did note that in a few cases permanent data loss to the Persistent Disk occurred. Google noted to its customers that "GCE instances and Persistent Disks within a zone exist in a single Google data center and are therefore unavoidably vulnerable to data center-scale disasters." Despite the unavoidable vulnerabilities, Google is taking full responsibility for the loss of data that did occur and is increasing its resiliency against power outages, with researchers already at work to improve cache data retention and response procedures for system engineers. Source: The Stack Back to original news post Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 (edited) Nothing is ever 100% secure or safe, that's well known fact, stuff happens. Edited August 20, 2015 by Black64 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
get_saif Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 I had taken an escalation once. Customers /lady must be age-30z.. My data is lost, my family photo gone... crying crying. It was hard to explain stuff happens Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 I am surprised there wasn't more safety messures in place considering its google lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locutus Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 I am surprised there wasn't more safety messures in place considering its google lol Yeah but where are they going to backup all the stuff, another identical data center next door? I am kind of surprised it was hit by lightning at all, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 Ya true just figured it would be better protected in a event like this. Maybe the lightning was attracted to the heat lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest_Jim_* Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 Ya true just figured it would be better protected in a event like this. Maybe the lightning was attracted to the heat lol Perhaps they should search Lightning Rods on Bing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
get_saif Posted August 23, 2015 Posted August 23, 2015 I am surprised there wasn't more safety messures in place considering its google lol Yeah but where are they going to backup all the stuff, another identical data center next door? I am kind of surprised it was hit by lightning at all, though. I believe they usually use synchronizing databases in differed geo-location? so stuff like this happens. More prepared for natural disasters!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted August 24, 2015 Posted August 24, 2015 Ya true just figured it would be better protected in a event like this. Maybe the lightning was attracted to the heat lol Perhaps they should search Lightning Rods on Bing. LMAO nice Jim Nice haha Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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