Koolau
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During my career I was involved with some technological developments that changed how different businesses processed their customers work. Great improvements were made in efficiency, leading to cost cutting headcount reductions. This was game changing and was quickly adopted by Megacorp's customers.
Then one day systems didn't work after an operating system upgrade and the backups were gone! Gone, the tape librarian had scratched them and poof, they were overwritten! They had millions of dollars in hardware that didn't work, none of their current data, and no clear recovery options. On top of this steaming pile they were in financial services and their regulatory requirements weren't being met.
Stuff changed afterwards.
I love it. Megacorp got caught on a smaller scale in similar "cost saving" situations. Sort of like - do we really need this brick in the wall? Okay, how 'bout THIS one. Hey, maybe THIS ONE too. Oh cr@p!
Now returning you to tonights symposium on "This Weather Is Awful."