Data centre incidents recorded in South Africa, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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Newest incident first. Each entry is free to read, with what happened and its sources; the record behind it adds the cause where it is established, the part that failed, the downtime and the loss.
At about 03:05 on 11 February 2024, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) detected a power feed disruption at its colocation data centre in South Africa. According to the JSE service notice, the site was being load shed when a generator did not start. The...
During Stage 4 load shedding by Eskom, South Africa's grid operator, a cooling failure was reported at MTN's Gallo Manor data centre in Johannesburg. MTN said a power outage on the Wednesday afternoon affected one of its coolers at the site. MTN said the...
A power surge from the public electricity network disabled the primary data centre of First National Bank (FNB) in South Africa, in early 2012 (the exact date is not stated in the source). The bank estimated the surge at around 12,000 kVA and said it was...
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