Anecdote: Twice in One Week – Disaster Recovery beyond our Control
It has been a busy week for disaster recovery so far – we had an outage on Monday and we had another one Wednesday.
“On Monday, we lost our e-mail services. Years ago, such a problem would’ve been effectively “over” within a matter of hours but unfortunately, more and more companies are outsourcing their services overseas, and it takes more than fixing the local domain services to resolve the problem.
“Our Wednesday problem occurred while I was at lunch. I hurried back and arrived at a darkened building. Luckily, since we moved offices, we aren’t as high up as we used to be and I only had to run up six stories worth of stairs (although immediately after lunch, it felt like more than that). It turned out that the entire local grid had lost power…”
See Twice in One Week – Disaster Recovery beyond our Control, by Gavin Bollard, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
