{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"OTAVA","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.otava.com","title":"Michigan Data Centers Were Up & Running: Online Tech\u2019s Co-CEO Reflects on 2003 Power Outage","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zx59D3gKDM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/michigan-data-centers-were-up-running-online-techs-co-ceo-reflects-on-2003-power-outage\/\">Michigan Data Centers Were Up &#038; Running: Online Tech\u2019s Co-CEO Reflects on 2003 Power Outage<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/michigan-data-centers-were-up-running-online-techs-co-ceo-reflects-on-2003-power-outage\/embed\/#?secret=zx59D3gKDM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Michigan Data Centers Were Up &#038; Running: Online Tech\u2019s Co-CEO Reflects on 2003 Power Outage&#8221; &#8212; OTAVA\" data-secret=\"zx59D3gKDM\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.otava.com\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","description":"August 14th marks the 10th anniversary of America\u2019s largest power outage leaving customers from Michigan to New England without power for days. When Yan Ness, Online Tech Co-CEO, and his partners purchased Online Tech in July 2003, they didn\u2019t realize in less than 2 months the Michigan data center would experience a test of a lifetime.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Shortly after 4 pm EST on August 14th, 2003, the power grid that distributed electricity to the eastern United States became overloaded. Circuit breakers began tripping at generating stations in New York to Michigan and into Canada causing the largest power outage in American history.1 Ness vividly remembers that day as he was in a board meeting when alarms in the Michigan data center began going off.\u00a0 Everyone ran out of the boardroom and into the data center to see what was wrong.\u00a0 The office was on a generator so it had power and nothing was down in the data center, yet alarms were going off. \u201cIt took a while for us to realize what was truly going on.\u00a0 Until someone looked at CNN.com did we comprehended how bad the power outage actually was,\u201d said Ness. The 2003 power outage affected approximately 10...","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/otavawebsite.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/misc\/michigan-colocation-poster.png"}