A couple of comedy items. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CphpsfvWEAAqVJ0.jpg (Frame from movie Airplane (1980) with unplugged power cord).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVc4KgWcDhw Stand up comic about lack of service on Delta. On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:21 PM, August Carideo/RYE/US <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
