{"id":39181,"date":"2012-11-12T13:17:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=39181"},"modified":"2012-11-12T13:17:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:17:27","slug":"data-centers-fight-back-from-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/data-centers-fight-back-from-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Centers Fight Back from Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sandy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sandy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>by Tracey Capen and Rich Miller for Windows Secrets Newsletter<\/p>\n<h4>Data Centers Fight Back from Sandy<\/h4>\n<p>We all know that Superstorm Sandy was immensely destructive to the eastern coast of North America, with New York and New Jersey particularly hard-hit.<\/p>\n<p>While individuals battled to save their property \u2014 and in many cases their lives \u2014 huge Internet data centers struggled to stay online.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy didn\u2019t hit people and businesses just on the East Coast. The huge storm\u2019s effects were felt across North America. As anyone who read last week\u2019s Windows Secrets knows, the servers that deliver the Windows Secrets newsletter were knocked out just as we were preparing to publish.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we were able to switch to servers on the West Coast, and we believe most subscribers received the Nov. 1 issue.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding caused by Sandy had a huge effect on the Internet. Numerous major data centers lost power and went dark, despite having spent millions of dollars on backup systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/top-story\/internet-data-centers-battle-back-from-sandy\/?utm_source=PCPitstop&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Rest of the Story Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt appears with permission from Windows Secrets Newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sandy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sandy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During and after the storm Internet providers scrambled to remain 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