LinkedIn IPO filing reveals poor disaster recovery set-up


Although it has recently implemented a disaster recovery program, the professional social networking company LinkedIn does not currently have a way to quickly shift production workload to a back-up data center.

In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company disclosed that downtime at its primary data center means downtime for LinkedIn.

LinkedIn’s lack of a functional failover system became apparent in December. The company’s website experienced about six hours of planned downtime that month, as its technicians were upgrading systems in the newer data center in Los Angeles.

See LinkedIn IPO filing reveals poor disaster recovery set-up: Company at present has no real-time failover capabilities.

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