IS data center fire a false alarm

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IS DC false alarm

Smoke coming from an Internet Solutions data centre was caused by a fire suppression system, with no disruption to IS services.
 
Someone is going to be in trouble... that gas costs many R100k to refill. :whistle:
 
Doesn't ANYONE at MBB proofread these articles before they are published?

Internet Solutions’ executive, Greg Montjoi,e said that it is currently not clear what triggered the fire-suppression system in the data centre, and that it may have been a manual trigger, which will be investigated.

Montjoie said tha,t while they are currently investigating the issue, there does not seem to be any service disruption caused by the fire-suppression system.
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I beg to differ on the 'no disruption of services'
We have 6 servers with them, which are ALL down at this moment.
 
Where there's smoke, there's a fire suppression system that may or may not have been manually triggered.
Not quite as catchy as the original.
 
Centronix said:
How do you know that they are down as a result of the suppression system?
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You mean other than the massive tremors that shook the building and 3 of my servers dying at the same time. I saw the IDC after this happened, everybody that has a server was there to get their systems back up.

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achuman said:
You mean other than the massive tremors that shook the building and 3 of my servers dying at the same time. I saw the IDC after this happened, everybody that has a server was there to get their systems back up.

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Comms sent out stated that services were not disrupted... I can't rule out that services were disrupted as a result though
 
Because you're in Australia ROFL. last time I checked, Australia didn't rely on IS' center for data. :p
 
FYI latest communication to my company state that about 20 customers where directly affected by the fire suppressor foam
We have lost a server because of the foam, harddrive failed because of overheating from the foam coating on the case(s).
IS is reimbursing us with other HDD's - but there's not stock .. and no E.T.A
According to our account manager - another client got to the 'magic red button' and decided ...to press the fire alarm :D
 
Anthro said:
We have lost a server because of the foam, harddrive failed because of overheating from the foam coating on the case(s).
IS is reimbursing us with other HDD's - but there's not stock .. and no E.T.A
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That sucks. If the hard drives failed due to overheating, it makes you wonder what other damage has been caused by the foam.
 
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