The story below is true and just another reminder than backups, storage and running a hot or duplicate site in this day and age are very necessary. Even the people and companies who you would think would have the right people running things get it all wrong. Just think about how many companies you need on a daily basis and what would happen if they were down for the whole day due to an outage.
Remember, always back up, run a hot site if you need one. What cost the LSE in a one day outage would have paid for a hot site. That is one point I can never get across to CIO's and Director's who think they know all. They say that it will never happen to them because they built the network.
Arrogance and ego are the biggest reason people fail when designing or installing a network, also how CIO's and Directors get fired first.
As reported by the www.register.com
London Stock Exchange limps back online
The London Stock Exchange restored full connectivity today at four o'clock - just half an hour before the scheduled close. A spokeswoman for LSE said: "Trading resumed at four o'clock and we will close as normal at 4.30. We work with a number of suppliers so cannot speculate at this stage as to what caused the problems." Today should have been one of the biggest trading days of the year following yesterday's $200bn bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae by the US government. UK banks and mortgage providers with investments in the US mortgage markets should have felt the benefit of investors' improved confidence. After a miserable few months for share dealers and banks, many were expecting to cut their losses today. Outages at the exchange are not unknown but to lose an entire day's trading is far more damaging, especially on a day like today. City veteran David Buik told AP: "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the LSE system is not run in duplicate. So much and so many clients rely on the LSE's durability. They cannot afford to be let down." He said European clients were furious at the lost day.
Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the CEO/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a consulting and VAR partner specializing in WDS, VoIP, WLAN, Telepresence and Security. Pluto Networks is a leader in WDS-Application Acceleration, Full Disk Encryption, End Point Security and Telepresence. While specializing in the needs of large and enterprise companies, Pluto Networks has been concentrating on the SMB customers to provide them with the same great service as larger companies. Pluto Networks holds SMB specializations from our partners to service all their needs. Pluto Networks has become a leader in SMB VOIP using Cisco and Linksys to service customers.
Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1, Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls, Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.
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Er, Register.com ?
How about some attribution for the news item? I realize that this is essentially a PR blog, but at least tell us the correct site -- maybe it was in www.theregister.co.uk ? Certainly not 'register.com '.
Thanks.
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