[Cialug] IHDC: EdgeBCC

[John Lengeling]

I can see this as a valuable selling point.

The data center in our Boca Raton office is powered down anytime they
receive a mandatory hurricane evacuation.  We have 1 hour to power down
all equipment in the data center before the entire building power is cut
by the office management company.   All PCs are moved from the exterior
wall to the core of the building in case of window breakage.

During hurricane Wilma (2005), the office was off for 5-7 days.  FP&L
had 3.2M people without power.  On top of that we have regular power
interruptions from FP&L (Yea!)

Then when you add in the total cost of a data center (land,
infrastructure, labor), there is a reason they are being located in the
Midwest.

Of course people are betting on California having a major earthquake
before Iowa...it will come some day.

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Todd Walton
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 3:13 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] IHDC: EdgeBCC

August's meeting of the "Iowa Help Desk Chapter" will be held at a new
data center in Altoona called EdgeBCC.  The EdgeBCC website says:

"Located in the Midwest, the EdgeBCC offers companies located in
risk-prone areas the opportunity to leverage the stability of Central
Iowa to store critical data and host applications necessary for their
core business operations."

I don't know about you natives, but it strikes me as funny all the
ways that Iowa gets characterized, including by Iowans.  I guess
stability is a feature of Iowa.  But I can't imagine that it makes so
much of a difference from a data center located in, say, Los Angeles.
It's not like you can skimp on security because you're surrounded by
farmers.  Now, if they'd talked about differences in the political
landscape I could see it...

http://thinkhdi.com/chapters/ihdc/
http://www.edgebcc.com/

-todd
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