Comments on: Averting Disaster With the EPO Button http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/05/07/averting-disaster-with-the-epo-button/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: chuck goolsbee http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/05/07/averting-disaster-with-the-epo-button/comment-page-1/#comment-94 chuck goolsbee Tue, 08 May 2007 05:24:18 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/05/07/averting-disaster-with-the-epo-button/#comment-94 Johnny, the only way to make sabotage via EPO impossible is to eliminate the EPO. I'd wager a sushi lunch that for every one justified use of an EPO, that there are over 19 incorrect/accidental/sabotage EPO hits. For all the attention we datacenter designer/operators give to absurdly remote possibilities such as "terrorist attack", or "major earthquake" the reality is that our number one risk is just plain old, completely un-sexy human error. Go figure. --chuck Johnny, the only way to make sabotage via EPO impossible is to eliminate the EPO.

I’d wager a sushi lunch that for every one justified use of an EPO, that there are over 19 incorrect/accidental/sabotage EPO hits. For all the attention we datacenter designer/operators give to absurdly remote possibilities such as “terrorist attack”, or “major earthquake” the reality is that our number one risk is just plain old, completely un-sexy human error. Go figure.

–chuck

]]> By: Johnny Mnemonic http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/05/07/averting-disaster-with-the-epo-button/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Johnny Mnemonic Tue, 08 May 2007 00:57:37 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/05/07/averting-disaster-with-the-epo-button/#comment-93 none of the above advice addressed the issue encountered with the lead in article: deliberate sabotage. Can such a thing be stopped, while allowing safety personnel access in time of emergency? none of the above advice addressed the issue encountered with the lead in article: deliberate sabotage. Can such a thing be stopped, while allowing safety personnel access in time of emergency?

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