Regardless of the technology choice, it would be nice if there were enough competition in the US airline industry such that you could choose an airline with a hot DR plan that they regularly exercise.
IMO this is evidence that the heavy regulatory environment is of little actual value. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > The most telling detail I've seen is that the Delta 'system', whatever > that entails, encompasses 500 servers! Of those, 400 came up early-ish on, > but 100 others proved obstreperous. OK, folks here have cited--even boasted > about--nearly transparent DR failover. Really? Can anyone on this list > actually perform a complete DR with 500 servers to another location in less > time than it would (presumably) take to get all 500 back up in their native > location? We're not talking here about a well-configured mainframe. This is > a massive number of weenie-ware gizmos that all have to talk to each other > in perfect harmony. Somewhere else. > > If so, you are gods. I stand ready to be awed. > > . > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-302-7535 Office > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 11:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: Delta Outage > > Dutch television had the info that passengers were in trouble because > their data was lost in the disaster. If true, this is of course totally > unacceptable for such a company, whatever the disaster. > > Kees. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gerhard Adam > Sent: 09 August, 2016 18:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Delta Outage > > Apparently there are 500 servers involved. I have my own speculations as > to why they didn't declare a disaster. > > As a result, the outage was extended because it appears to be taking them > in excess of 12 hours to reboot everything. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Beaver > Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 8:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Delta Outage > > Then WHY did they not initiate their DR and move all systems to the HOT > Site. I just finished putting in a System that has a RTO=RPO=0 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gerhard Adam > Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 10:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Delta Outage > > From what I understand, it isn't a simple power outage, but rather a fire > in the data center. > > http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/data-center- > disaster-disrupts-delta- > airlines/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Beaver > Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 8:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Delta Outage > > I live in Texas and we have ERCOT, and Texas produces more wind energy than > 3 countries. And Texas has NO Interconnects To other grids. > > It its reprehensible that Delta does not have enough battery power and > gen-sets to cover the screw-ups by Atlanta Power. AA is in Irving and > unless there is a major storm in that area does not lose > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
