Tech Tidbit – Flash Drill – How Would Your Team Handle This Datacenter Event?

April 3rd, 2025
Tech Tidbit – Flash Drill – How Would Your Team Handle This Datacenter Event?

Today is a flash drill exercise.

You are experiencing the blizzard of 2025.

The Governor and County Executive have declared a state of emergency.

The roads are closed.

The snow keeps piling up.

Your district data center is operational, and you have generator backup.

However, your data center temperature alarms are going off, saying the air temperature in the data center is 100 degrees and rising.

You suspect the A/C has failed, perhaps because the AC units are now buried in the snow on the roof.

What is your next action to save the equipment in your data center?

(I've had this occur a few times.)

Good luck!

-Scott Quimby, Senior Technical Advisor, CISSP

Acture/CSI