It amazes me how little most laypeople know about IT and how easily they are brainwashed into believing the cloud will solve everything. Oh, and how little they’re willing to spend. Except for their cinnamon dolce latte.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 2:43 PM, Pommier, Rex <rpomm...@sfgmembers.com> wrote: "move it to the cloud and that'll fix all our problems." Maybe, just maybe, if your government would have allowed your IT department the resources to maintain your systems you never would have hit this fiasco in the first place? Yes, I used to work for a state government and while there was much waste, it definitely wasn't in their computer systems. It was like pulling hens' teeth to get money appropriated to keep the systems even reasonably current. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of John S. Giltner, Jr. Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 1:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: "Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72 hours to resolve" Seems 2 parts failed and it happened last week. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wvpublic.org/government/2022-07-21/mainframe-failure-shuts-down-dmv-dhhr-computer-systems__;!!KjMRP1Ixj6eLE0Fj!vEZK521pu_6IJVdRgo_xHFeC_aYqpKgh4x9uMlslIsuQpAhalnNGi59BT15vUbw3z_xK-hi4dXFdwgDv$ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
