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What Happened When Delta Went Down Yesterday?

posted by takyon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @03:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the you're-grounded dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

Do any Soylentils have inside/better information?

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday August 09 2016, @08:59PM

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday August 09 2016, @08:59PM (#385955) Journal

    That's why I said local server. When the ticket is created, the server at the departing airport gets a record of the ticket. The ticket itself gets a barcode containing the record and a signature to make it VERY hard to forge. The signature must verify and it must match the already downloaded record.

    In addition, the local server can then inform the central control that the passenger was actually boarded once things return to normal.

    As for management, call it a private cloud app and they'll be pissing themselves with excitement to get it done.

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