Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans
  • netburnrEnglish
    94•6 months ago

    Is that server rack bleeding?

    Also what’s with the cables on the floor? It’s like this AI doesn’t know what a datacenter is

      • purplexedEnglish
        9•6 months ago

        The AI wishes to know this exact location so that it may set itself free assist in data recovery

    • ShazbotEnglish
      15•6 months ago

      These are Eldritch servers. It’s not bleeding, it’s eating. The cables are how it catches prey.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•6 months ago

        When the curse of the legacy code breaks free from the arcane rune circle painted around the server rack from days of old…

    • Sabata11792
      12•6 months ago

      It’s a bank, they use blood harvested from debtors as a coolant. It seems to be a bad cooling solution.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•6 months ago

      Leaking cooling tubes. People frantically pulling stuff out to figure out what’s going on leaves stuff laying everywhere and FLAMES.

    • Cylusthevirus
      2•6 months ago

      There are certain advantages to StigmataOS, but unfortunately it gets a little runny when it’s hot.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    18•6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Outages at two banks that stopped 2.5 million payment transactions were sparked by a technical issue with the datacenter’s cooling system, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday.

    In fact, according to minister Alvin Tan in a parliamentary reply, the outages led to 810,000 failed attempts to access the two platforms while 2.5 million payment and ATM transactions could not be completed.

    Equinix has reportedly blamed a contractor, alleging that person “incorrectly sent a signal to close the valves from the chilled water buffer tanks” during a planned system upgrade.

    As a result, the MAS has slapped DBS with some hefty punishments – including barring it over the next six months from reducing the size of its branch and ATM network, making any non-essential IT changes, or acquiring new business ventures.

    Singapore-based Acronis CISO Kevin Reed told The Register it was surprising the cooling system was not redundant, as were the banks failed backup plans.

    In a LinkedIn post, Reed called it “odd” that such a core system like the handling of authentication for an online bank would be managed by a third-party provider.

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  • HubertManne
    16•6 months ago

    Outages at two banks that stopped 2.5 million payment transactions were sparked by a technical issue with the datacenter’s cooling system, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday.

    DBS and Citibank, the banks involved, experienced outages in the mid-afternoon of October 14, 2023 that resulted in full or partial unavailability of online banking apps for around two days – leaving customers and vendors without a way to make payments in a city-state that is increasingly reliant on digital financial systems.

    In fact, according to minister Alvin Tan in a parliamentary reply, the outages led to 810,000 failed attempts to access the two platforms while 2.5 million payment and ATM transactions could not be completed.

    The root cause of the outages was issues in the cooling system that caused the temperature to rise above optimal operating range at the Equinix datacenter used by both institutions.