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SearchDataCenter.com: Data Center Management Advisory
DR/Business Continuity Edition
November 01, 2007
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THE DATA CENTER EPO BUTTON: IS IT EVEN NECESSARY?
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Mark Fontecchio, News Writer

Thomas Roberts lived through a nightmare caused by his data center's
emergency power-off (EPO) switch, and it happened on Easter Sunday.
About a month after opening a new facility in March 2003, Roberts,
the director of data center services for Novi, Mich.-based Trinity
Health, got a call.
It was Easter morning, and a contractor had accidentally activated
the EPO switch as he tried to replace a module connecting the button
to the fire alarm system. According to Roberts, the fiasco "took the
data center out."
"But from that day forward," says Roberts,
"I tried to lessen the effect of this EPO."

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:: Disaster recovery lessons learned the hard way
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In this data center disaster recovery checklist, data center disaster
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infrastructure issues, operations planning and more.

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