Rachel Warren wrote:
The suitcase nuclear bomb that takes out my facility in one location is very likely to take out my other facility in the same metro area. And probably all the customers who would remotely care.
I don't know about the others in this thread, but the suitcase nuclear bomb is well outside the types of things I worry about protecting against, and in fact were one to explode I think 'lack of internet access' would be _WAY_ down on my list of priorities.
Hopefully Sean was being a bit over the top. :)
A bomb threat is definately something to worry about, though. I wish I remembered more of the details or a news article to substantiate, but what I do remember about a year ago was a bomb threat at the non-ghetto MAE-EAST facility in Vienna, VA (I remember we were all wondering why all the WCOM people were leaving the building).
If a bomb (threat) actually had occured, things would have definately been unhappy.
Rachel
-- But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Thoreau
Once upon a time, while talking with a customer about a particular LA datacenter's fault tolerant features (you know, generators, UPS, HVAC, diverse fiber entrances, etc...), they very calmly asked me what procedures we had in place in the event that a major earthquake struck the southland and dropped LA into the ocean or otherwise put the city underwater. I told them very bluntly that if an earthquake of that magnitude were to hit LA, I would *not* be overly concerned with their servers/circuit/etc., assuming I was still breathing. They were quite taken aback. ;) Grant -- Grant A. Kirkwood - grant@virtical.net Chief Technology Officer - Virtical Solutions, Inc. http://www.virtical.net/