Data Center Vulnerabilities: Why are Modern Data Centers Failing?
The year 2008 began with a dire prediction from Subodh Bapat, a vice president in the eco-computing team at Sun Microsystems, when he declared, “You’ll see a massive failure in a year.” He went on to say, “We are going to see a data center failure of that scale,” referring to the worm that took down 5% of worldwide UNIX boxes in 1988.
This time he isn’t citing security lapses as the root cause but rather failure caused by the massive computing power required to run today’s applications.
Though certainly an extreme position, the past year has seen a rash of data center failures that brings into question how reliable single data centers are for the delivery of mission-critical applications.
Vulnerabilities ranging from the most common, like natural disasters and infrastructure failure (data center power outage, burst pipes, construction work damaging fibre lines, ) to hardware failure, storage or database failure and common software problems, have been causing regular disruptions to businesses and come with a high price tag.
Recent events in the news support the fact that even with good planning, resourcing and design, some of the most sophisticated facilities can still experience catastrophic failure.
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