As per the Washingtonpost report. Delta Airlines, one of the top three leading airways in the United States faced the massive setback of 2,300 cancellations and 8,000 late flights due to a power outage at data center deployed in Atlanta. This cost huge loss of money for Delta which includes $200 travel vouchers for the passengers affected due to this issue.The customers were stranded in the airports sleeping on floors and Delta is in the verge of retaining their reputation they have earned throughout the years. Apart from these, as a guy from IT, the first thing came in mind after hearing this is “Oh! my God !! This is gonna be the toughest day in lifetime for the DR administrators in Delta and thankfully I am not the one doing it“. I kept on wondering how come a modernised data center can’t face a simple power outages with the latest technologies in place. The CEO of Delta mentioned in his apology video, that hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested over the past three years for upgrading technology infrastructure and backup systems. But having a high tech data center without an offsite DR set up is like self-constraining our own capability. I personally believe that for these kind of business critical systems, it is always better to have a redundant recovery step available at catastrophic disaster scenarios as they mostly cannot prefer public cloud for their deployments and hence they can have off-site DR environments in their co-location. As a leading backup software vendor providing solutions to customers having business critical data, Vembu provides an option to have their data both at Vembu Cloud or in off-site location which comes with options like Quick VM recovery to instantly boot backed-up physical and virtual machines in Offsite BDR servers in lesser minutes with persistent data. The data can be either booted in the BDR server machines or any other virtualization hosts like Hyper-V, VMware and KVM. Business continuity matters, whether it is a corporate or SMB and it’s always a better idea to have a redundant copy ready to come in action. If you need a better deployment advice for your disaster recovery, schedule a call us at any time and our technical experts are available 24/7 to sort things out as appropriate.
Hand written ticket due to system outage (Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/delta-system-outage-triggers-delays-worldwide-n625141)
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