A Walk in the Cloud with PowerVPS and Equinix

from ctovision.com:

>>Thursday, I was fortunate enough to get to walk around Equinix’s DC-4 datacenter in Ashburn, VA.

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Equinix’s infrastructure is fed by numerous high voltage cables to Dominion Power, but in case of an outage, they have rooms full of batteries, 2MWatt generators, and 500,000 gallons of fuel ready to go. I heard that during a storm a few years ago, Dominion Power was having a hard time getting the full workload up – which led to them asking Equinix to run off of fuel generators all week. Equinix was capable of managing their load and maintaining operations the entire time.