Posted on 07/08/2015 2:10:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There's a little to much "coincidence" for one day.
Obama’s fault.
The WSJ website was brought down by a heavy spike in traffic from people trying to find out what had happened to the stock exchange. The United problem, they say, was a failed router.
Unless a crisis situation already exists, no IT manager would ever permit system maintenance to occur in a window where they could potentially impact the end user. This “upgrade” should have been performed the moment they shut down Friday after providing enough time for testing and/or recovery before restarting Monday.
So what really happened here? Never heard of SOX before?
Some guy with a TRS-80 still does his trades on Compuserve?..................
Ok, that makes sense.
Just about anybody. Not doing that is complete idiocy, if that’s what really happened.
I have zero knowledge about such systems, but I can tell you they tested and tested and tested some more until they thought it would be a relativity clean switch over...
LOL...in one case it took three weeks to get all the bugs and issues cleaned up...we has serious data loss, like more than 50 %
In their defense, they were upgrading a system so old, they had to bring in retired IT personnel to help figure things out...
It was a nightmare to say the least...
Not buying it. They sandbox upgrades to see how they take before going live with them. This explanation is a steaming coil of post-processed press flack food.
which is EXACTLY why I don’t buy the story.
Background: LAMP stack; System Admin.
Even if systems are redundant, you DONT do upgrades during prime time. and they JUST had a 3-day weekend to make changes/ dry runs.
Mainframes still outperform servers. The last mainframe I supported (some 20+ years ago) had an internal bus transfer rate of 16 trillion bits per second.. The I/O rate of mainframes vs servers is of no comparison. Servers “came about” as “Globalists” wanted cheap people with “portable skills”. (ever had an computer issue and talked to someone with a “vulgar” accent)?
The mainframe “cost per user” is still less than half the cost of “open system servers” (which is *anything but **open systems***)
I once had lunch with a man who man IBM a household name..
They rolled in major changes in the middle of the week? Sounds like they hired some old IRS employees who used to handle email backups.
Oh, and no offense intended, NR. Just I’ve “done” IT for 37+ years. The class of folk in Open Systems vs Mainframe is stunning. Rock solid folk (mainframe). Tattoos and body piercings folk (open systems (along with dark figures of evil sh!t on their desks).
BAM! I think you nailed it.
They upgraded to Windows 10 server edition....
It might have been me on DEC Vax.
That’s the reason they gave for the issues??
Really?
Good as any. : )
More like China conveniently decided to crash. The upgrade was announced weeks ago.
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