Virgin Blue suffers data centre blackout

By Ry Crozier on Feb 20, 2011 6:21 PM
Filed under Networking
 

Downs check-in systems.

Virgin Blue has blamed a power outage at its Sydney data centre for another check-in system outage.

The airline's troubled systems went black for two hours today, again casting doubt over their stability.

However, a spokesman told 7 News that the outage was unconnected to recent IT issues that have affected the airline.

"This morning our check-in and online booking systems were briefly impacted due to a power outage at our data centre. This was quickly rectified," the airline said in a statement on its website.

"Flight schedules are currently in the process of returning to normal. There were some flight delays this morning as a result of the power outage."

Virgin Blue's check in systems went down last week, causing flight delays nationally.

It also suffered IT issues in September and October last year.

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Virgin Blue suffers data centre blackout
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"I'm sure that their Oracle implementation provided a disaster recovery solution. Wait.... whoops."
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pameacs
Feb 21, 2011 9:39 AM
 Actually it is related, just in a different way, I would say it shows their business continuity is lacking, power outage and software issues are not reasons to have an outage, not in a business that is 24/7/365. Better effort required guys to improve your ability to survive such hiccups. Don't you have a standby data centre for a fail over when the lights go out??
Notomys
Feb 21, 2011 11:55 AM
 I'm sure that their Oracle implementation provided a disaster recovery solution. Wait.... whoops.
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