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- Tech Nightmares Frighten a CIO

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

The City of Seattle has multiple data centers, but our main one, constructed in 2001, has well over $15 million of stuff in it. I guess it’s time to test that disaster recovery plan again! Halloween seems like a perfect time to confront a few of our most frightful fears, and here are a few of mine. Or Fire followed by Water.

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Fountainhead: Correcting computing's wrongs - road to recovery?

Fountainhead

The principle has been known as that of a "computing fabric," first conceived by Vern Brownell , the then-CTO of Goldman Sachs, and later productized by Egenera. Should they all fail, such as in a disaster, the entire configuration, down to each servers I/O, networks, VLANs, etc., Presto - instant Disaster Recovery (DR).

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