On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:11:53 -0400, Christopher Morrow said: > sorry I meant that: 1) yes clearly it's still the middle of > roadwork/backhoe season, 2) i'm surprised that a single path failure > for their production datacenter was enough to take the system offline. > 'spof' there meant: "Wow, a single point of failure in their outside > plant?"
Given that back in 2010, they suffered a *disastrous* outage when a storage array failed and took multiple agencies with it.... https://www.computerworld.com/article/2515423/northrop-grumman-takes-blame-for-va--it-services-outage.html my reaction was more like <voice="Gomer Pyle"> Surprise, surprise, surprise... </voice> That one started when one storage array had a failed memory card, and the backup array encountered issues as well. There were a number of state agencies and universities that had fought for increased self-governance, and a *huge* part of that was "not be forced to outsource their internal IT to VITA", and those units were very glad they had won that fight....
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