Who wouldn’t want a data center location that will leave you and your company free of any and all worries about hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes (unnatural disasters are another matter).
Here’s the rub: Your options, geographically speaking, are extremely limited, according to a fun little series of heat maps collected and overlaid upon each other by Peter Alguacil, an IT analyst with Pingdom, a Web site monitoring company.
Your choices:
There’s a swath of east-central Montana and the southwest corner of North Dakota.
Northern Minnesota and the Michigan’s Upper Peninsula can be lovely this time of year.
A few chambers of commerce in northern Missouri should get to bragging.
And, oddly enough, there’s a skinny stretch of Texas from just north of its southern tip to right about where you’d expect to find the state’s belly button that not only avoids hurricanes and earthquakes but has some kind of magical force field that shields it from twisters wandering over from the high-risk tornado zones immediately to its east, west and north. (Note to self: Find out what kind of technology is at work there.)
Of course, if you already have a data center and aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, or if you need a new one but it’s got to be close by, the maps look a little more harrowing than useful (not that you need them to know the local conditions).
Is there anyplace that faces the triple-whammy: hurricane, tornado and earthquake risk?
Hi, there, coastal South Carolina: moderate to high risk for all three; impressive, indeed.
Trust ya’ll have your disaster recovery plans up to date.
