[LINK] itN: Tabcorp hosts go out, and so does the service

[Roger Clarke]

[ How long ago were the notions of failover and hot-sites mainstream for
major pnline services?  About 40 years, I think.

[ A lot of ISO standards are vague requirements statements rather than
tech specs, but ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301 appear to be relevant. ]


Tabcorp servers damaged after fire at third-party data centre
Causes service issues through the weekend.
Ry Crozier
itNews
Nov 8 2020
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/tabcorp-servers-damaged-after-fire-at-third-party-data-centre-555617

Tabcorp suffered outages to customer-facing services over the weekend
after a "fire incident" caused "extensive damage" to servers it hosted
at [an un-named] third-party data centre.

The problems started at about 11.30am Saturday and continued through the
weekend, with race meetings delayed or postponed as a result.

[ The sport must go on.  Unless it's raison detre disappears of course.]

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