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Load Shedding and Banking IT

It is such time again. Checking the load shedding schedules. Rechecking and hoping the power utility keeps to the scheduled times. Working around their schedule while you have to provide 24x7 support for a 24x7x365 operation becomes a challenge at best. No longer can you dial in at any time since, unless you've spent a small fortune on generation capacity, you won't have any ADSL access to your place of employment during load shedding, which means quick fixes become snarling endurance races back into the office.

26 Feb 2015

Since writing this, we had experienced another Stage 2 load shedding event, that had the computer room in the dark. Explanation: yet undetermined.

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