Re: [Nolug] UNO closed

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:

> 3-4 feet from ground level is pretty sorry. Or do you mean sea level?
>
> I would consider 2nd floor the minimum for a data center in New
> Orleans.

Ground level, but we're not in NO, we're in Hammond, at least 10 miles
from a major body of water. To my knowledge the building has not flooded
in its 66 year existence, not to say it couldn't happen though. If it
does we have equipment running in a backup data center on the 2nd floor
about a mile from main campus.

> Of the datacenters I've seen in NO, DirectNic's still continues to
> impress me the most. 6000+ sq feet on the 10th floor of Poydras with
> a fuel truck for the generators parked on the 9th floor of the
> parking garage.

That is a sweet datacenter. I've been up there a few times... it's so
noisy in there you can't hear yourself think. the generators are in
addition to the massive UPS systems all around the 9th and 10th floor.
But i don't think the building would survive a 747 crashing into it,
hahaha...

Have you ever been in the Bellsouth building down the street? I've heard
they have some pretty massive protection for the equipment in that
building...

> But, seriously, anyone who left off considering disaster recovery
> until the week of the hurricane is in for some trouble.

True... i only mentioned it since we just happened to complete a DR test
on Thursday, and had all our critical apps running in about 2 hours.
Just wondered who else in the area had similar DR plans in place...

ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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