Some more interesting news on Delta http://www.cringely.com/
here is some of the article Delta Airlines was an IBM outsourcing customer, they may still be today, I don't know. They haven't returned my call. Loss of power in a data center usually triggers a disaster recovery plan. When that happens you have two basic choices: switch to your backup systems somewhere else or fix the outage and recover your primary systems. The problem with going to backup systems is those backups usually do not have capacity for 100 percent of the workload so only the most critical functions are moved. Then once everything is fixed you have to move your workload back to your production systems. That is often high risk, a major pain, and takes a lot of effort. So in a traditional disaster recovery setup, the preference will always be to recover the primary services. Anything less than a 100 percent service backup isn't disaster recovery, it is disaster coping. Now if the IT support team is thousands of miles away, offshore, the process for restarting hundreds - perhaps thousands - of systems can be slow and painful. If you lose the data link between your support team and the data center due to that same power outage your support team can do nothing until the data link is fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
