On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Virgil Bierschwale <[email protected]>wrote:
> > By that, I wondered how long it would be before a cloud company went under > leaving their customers hanging. > Why would they, alone, be exempt from the laws of physics? Everything dies. Lehman Brothers left people high and dry. AIG collapsed. Detroit deflated. Nash no longer makes the Metropolitan. Stuff happens. Just two weeks ago, the FDIC closed The Community’s Bank, of Bridgeport, CT, and was unable to find an assuming institution to take over the accounts. They'll be sending people checks, up to the amount they were insured. Stuff fails. It is the responsibility of every IT professional to anticipate and prepare contingency plans to manage the loss of every key supplier of the resources they consume, as much as practicable. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4vwxaoaatuntah1lvgfx164+3r7ycrvsdzptxo0pvn...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
