New software solves this ?
Presumably the new software they are buying is so much more efficient that it will use less CPU and so the data center will run cooler
Doctors at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, one of the UK's largest healthcare organizations, were this week left unable to access patient records and forced to cancel appointments following an IT outage caused by the extreme heatwave. Reports suggest both the trust's datacenters suffered outages as Britain hit …
Yeah, that struck me too where the article said "The outage came after the trust board was warned months ago of the risk of running legacy systems." and I thought, how does legacy software relate to the cooling systems not being able to handle the conditions? Running legacy software doen;t mean they are still running on hot-running P75 servers. They may be, but nothing in the article indicates what hardware is running in the data centres.
There is something I don't get.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
The aircon system in a data centre breaks down casuing temperatures to rise and - presumably - IT equipement to either start shutting down or failing.
So HOW is this the fault of "legacy IT systems"?
Unles one is counting the HVAC as a "legacy IT system".
The failure was the HVAC and, by extension - unless they run their own data centre, which I doubt (if anyone knows please do tell) - the mob who run the data centre for failing to either maintain the HVAC or have adequate backup HVAC provision.
Not the IT. The IT failing was a symptom caused by the HVAC not working.
I suspect the problem with the legacy software could be lapsed support and the inability to run up duplicate installs on new hardware or virtual hosts, in a different location.
The software itself was likely still doing it's job, tho probably only to the minimal original specifications from way back when it was purchased.
Very true.
Harder to have a working DR plan if it depends on equally old, out of support/warranty hardware and software to work. And when was it last tested?
Having said that, where the hell was the data centre's EOPs (Emergancy Operating Procedures) to deal with the failure of critical HVAC equipment. And for it to happen at TWO data centres?
Someone seriously took their eye of both balls so should, arguably, lose theirs (metaphorically speaking as I'm sure gender is and should be irrelevant in efficiently running data centres).
…have so many promises that as soon as the procurement process starts all other systems including HVAC, servers, storage, desktops and applications cannot attract even minimal maintenance investment. This is not the fault of the staff, their managers or the vendors they work with, but a natural result of how the funding works.
and is the oil/fossil fuel industry since its decision to conceal, deny, obfuscate and impede action on its understanding yesterday it was causing planetwide heating.
Some chilling should be applied around there.
BTW last November there were a still few things going on to tax hospitals, and a change of clinical software would have been nastier than usual.