Bill, I'm not trying to get political here, but when was the last time politics and common sense intersected? I'm not saying this to be snarky but realistic. The politicians (at state and local levels who actually have to balance budgets) have people and special interest groups clamoring for a limited pool of money. The politician is going to try to make his/her constituency happy in order to get re-elected so infrastructure expenditures (like keeping their computers maintained) that John Q Public never sees until they crash spectacularly, gets overlooked.
Add to that the fact that much of the public sector funding is earmarked for a particular project and there's hell-to-pay if the money gets spent elsewhere. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of william janulin Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72 hours to resolve Inbox I find it amazing that, in this day and age, a major public sector mainframe data centerdoes not seem to have a complete disaster contingency plan. I know that there is a cost for doing this but common sense needs to prevail here. On Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 08:58:00 AM EDT, Colin Paice <[email protected]> wrote: As part of my customer visits to do audits you get to hear their tales of woe. 1. Major outage at main site. All people go to new DR site - they do not have badge access through the doors! 2.As part of a DR walk through, people had to go and physically touch the kit they would be turning on/off. They found some of the kit in locked areas - and none of the DR team had a key! 3.Major power outage on site. They found their recovery bible on what to do ( and how to restart the site) was on a server - which had no power. When power came back, they started the server and the "cloud disks" copied the bible to a laptop, and shut the site down. Then followed the bible. Follow up plan was to print a copy, and keep it in the operations room. Perhaps someone should write up these sort of tales, and make it required reading at Computer Science school. Colin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
