Hurricane Sandy Wreaks Havoc on East Coast Data Facilities
Google, among numerous other businesses, has faced disruptions due to Hurricane Sandy's impact on the US East Coast. The storm hit yesterday afternoon, leaving an estimated one million people without power in New York and Westchester County.
The power outage has been a significant issue, with downed trees causing fiber outages all across the northeast, according to Datagram. The power company Consolidated Edison, based in New York, protected both its own and electrical equipment by shutting down services to an estimated 650,000 customers in New York and Westchester County on Tuesday.
Datagram, Google's data center hosting provider, faced flooding and fiber outages at its New York and Connecticut facilities. In response, Datagram announced on its website that Verizon and other carriers in the area are down, and generators are unable to pump fuel due to flooding in basements.
The Huffington Post, Gawker, and BuzzFeed websites went offline due to the storm, although no information about the impact of the power outage on these specific websites was provided.
In an effort to maintain services, CoreSite, a data center operator, sent five employees to ensure that its data centers stayed online in the hurricane's path. CoreSite operates between 300,000 and 400,000 square feet of data centers, with some located in the path of Hurricane Sandy.
To assist customers affected by the power outage, cloud storage provider Nirvanix is offering customers located in its New Jersey data center the opportunity to move their data to other locations within its cloud storage network, such as the US, Frankfurt, or Tokyo, either temporarily or permanently, free of charge.
In addition to the power outages, customers in Brooklyn, New York, and Westchester County were affected. Consolidated Edison shut down electrical services to 28,200 customers in Brooklyn on Monday.
As the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy continues to unfold, businesses and residents alike are working to restore services and regain normalcy.
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