Data Center Operator Inland Fiber and Data Preparing For Upcoming Hurricane Season

Prior to the beginning of this year’s hurricane season that began June 1^st, the Floridian data center operator, Inland Fiber & Data asked organizations to stay prepared. In a press release, the company introduced a range of preparation facilities. By utilizing these facilities, the organizations can experience uninterrupted IT operations even if their primary data center gets damaged due to natural disaster.

IF&D was specially designed to meet the disaster recovery and business continuity needs of organizations of a hurricane prone Florida. IF&D’s protected inland location at 168 feet above sea-level and outside the 500 year flood zone, make it an ideal safety-vault for the Floridian companies to keep their critical IT infrastructure safe and protected.

It will be worthwhile to mention here that researchers Philip J. Klotzbach and William M. Gray from the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University which annually publishes hurricane activity forecast reports predicted that this year the U.S. and Caribbean region will experience major hurricane landfall.

In the company’s report for 2011, they concluded that the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season will have significantly more activity than average. They estimate that this year will have about 9 hurricanes (average is 5.9), 16 named storms (average is 9.6), 80 named storm days (average is 49.1), 35 hurricane days (average is 24.5), 5 major (Category 3-4-5) hurricanes (average is 2.3) and 10 major hurricane days (average is 5.0).

The researchers indicated a high probability for at least one major hurricane tracking into the Caribbean. A few more areas include the entire U.S. coastline, the U.S. East Coast and Florida and the Gulf Coast all the way from the Florida Panhandle westward to Brownsville are also likely to experience at least one major hurricane landfall.