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Cringley speculates like hell:
Delta Airlines last night suffered a major power outage at its data center in Atlanta that led to a systemwide shutdown of its computer network, stranding airliners and canceling flights all over the world. You already know that. What you may not know, however, is the likely role in the crisis of IT outsourcing and offshoring.
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What Happened When Delta Went Down Yesterday?
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 09 2016, @08:06PM
It doesn't matter how old the software is. The fact is that Delta had no disaster recovery plan at all
I started my career at a major financial services company a long time ago and their disaster recovery plan was based on having the same code at many sites, which works perfectly when the problem is a hurricane or earthquake (neither of which were issues at any of the sites, intentionally, but I digress) and fails miserably when the problem is the code itself.
Of course we had two devs and a test system to go with our dual prods and disaster recovery schemes. Back when having a test or dev meant literally buying five mainframes instead of just two.
Anyway if there's an old bug that barfs on 8/8/16 for whatever reason, all the hardware DR plans in the world won't help.