Announcements

Date of announcement
7 June 2003 - Power Outage @ GlobalCenter

There was a power failure in the local Power Grid maintained by the electricity provider CitiPower in the South Melbourne area at 9:25pm on 6 June 2003.

Representatives of CitiPower claim this outage was due to the recent severe weather conditions experienced in Melbourne.

Mr. Stephen Green, GlobalCenter's Internet Data Centre Manager stated "that the IDC's power automatically switched to generator with no effect on clients located in its IDC. This outage lasted approx 10 minutes".

A fault ticket was created to log this event with no further action required after power was re-instated and systems operated, as required.

A check around the IDC by GlobalCenter 7 x 24 hour staff during and after the failure found the UPS and generator systems operated without hesitation and in accordance with procedures set for such an occurrence.

"This is a tribute to the well maintained systems operated by GlobalCenter", Stephen Green stated.