Power Outage Hits London Data Center update from July 2012

Customers of a Level 3 data center in London were knocked offline last by a UPS failure. The downtime knocked dozens of companies offline, according to The Register, which has details from the incident report.

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It's already been a tough month for data center uptime. Customers of a Level 3 Communications data center in London were knocked offline last by a UPS failure. The downtime knocked dozens of companies offline, according to The Register, which has details from the incident report. "Power technicians have discovered 4 bus-bars scorched on the UPS system which caused the AC power failure," it reported. The incident, which has been confirmed by Level 3, appears to have lasted about five hours.

For more details, read the full story at The Register.

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