Telkom data centre power outage

[Kevin Lancaster]

Telkom data centre power outage

A Telkom data centre in Centurion experienced a “power incident” on Thursday morning

 

[kianm]

Understandable when they explain to their customers. That's very important

 

[CeeBee]

"Telkom said that the incident was due to a failure of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) unit "... one UPS causes a datacenter outage?
maybe its a big UPS...
maybe they should use more than one UPS for failover power

 

[MickZA]

"Telkom said that the incident was due to a failure of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) unit "... one UPS causes a datacenter outage?
maybe its a big UPS...
maybe they should use more than one UPS for failover power

from the article:

“Power was maintained through alternative UPS configurations,” Telkom said. “Only customers with equipment that was not dual-connected to alternative power feeds were impacted.”

 

[ponder]

maybe its a big UPS...

Think large rooms full of massive batteries, huge solid copper busbars (a copper thiefs wet dream), dual feeds, several room sized backup gennies etc etc.

This is not your average apc ups you order off the shelf...

 

[MickeyD]

Think large rooms full of massive batteries, huge solid copper busbars (a copper thiefs wet dream), dual feeds, several room sized backup gennies etc etc.

This is not your average apc ups you order off the shelf...

Some info/pics of their Bellville data centre: http://jlb-architects.co.za/?portfolio=bellville-data-centre

 

[ponder]

Some info/pics of their Bellville data centre: http://jlb-architects.co.za/?portfolio=bellville-data-centre

See they are running dynamic rotary ups systems there so no need for batteries.

 

[MickeyD]

See they are running dynamic rotary ups systems there.

Was not allowed to take photos when I was there earlier this year.... very impressive. 2 power suites, separate...

 

[ponder]

Was not allowed to take photos when I was there earlier this year.... very impressive. 2 power suites, separate...

Telkom needs to makes some technical info/education videos that will promote company and also provide insight to what happends behind the scenes. I dunno why they are so secrative while overseas companies jump at the opportunity to give guided tours for media that want to film infrastructure & operations as it's a means of promoting the company & it's capabilities.

 

[MickeyD]

Telkom needs to makes some technical info/education videos that will promote company and also provide insight to what happends behind the scenes. I dunno why they are so secrative while overseas companies jump at the opportunity to give guided tours for media that want to film infrastructure & operations as it's a means of promoting the company & it's capabilities.

'twas what I said...

 

[Arthur]

Telkom needs to makes some technical info/education videos that will promote company and also provide insight to what happends behind the scenes.

You're right. Telkom obviously has some impressive technology and infrastructure. And many impressively capable people. They need to lift the kimono a little and let their customers know.