I wouldn't take that bet, because I think you have probably hit the nail on the head. If it was all hardware, they would be passing the blame on to EMC, I am sure.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Massive computer outage halts some Va. agencies On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote: > It's ok. Northrup Grumman is sorry. Awwwwww, how cute. The company thinks it's a people! > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183460/Northrop_Grumman_takes_ > blame_for_Va._IT_services_outage "Nixon said in published accounts that the failure wasn't so much the memory card as it was the system in place to back it up." Wanna bet it's something like "the backup array had been offline with a fault for three weeks but nobody had got around to fixing it yet because it was just a backup system"? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
