Regulated isn't a barrier, but legacy is.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 6:57:02 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Delta failure And Airline support systems are massively legacy and regulated... On 8/9/16 4:43 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: Cloud is grossly overrated. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 6:32:11 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Delta failure They keep all their servers in the same central location?? You would think someone the size of Delta would know better. They should look into this new thing called "the cloud"... I've heard it's an up-and-coming new technology that might really help them. LOL Travis On 8/9/2016 5:18 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: <blockquote> “According to the flight captain of JFK-SLC this morning, a routine scheduled switch to the backup generator this morning at 2:30am caused a fire that destroyed both the backup and the primary. Firefighters took a while to extinguish the fire. Power is now back up and 400 out of the 500 servers rebooted, still waiting for the last 100 to have the whole system fully functional” Many running on XP I am told. “Server has been up for 6.3 years, never reboot this server...” </blockquote>
