Logan Shaw wrote:
WP wrote:

On Monday evening, though, just before 5pm, I had a phone call from
Turnkey to say they'd not posted my Tascam out at all. I rang and
spoke to a manager, who told me that their entire IT system had failed
the previous week, and that as a result they were unable to post
anything out.


This sounds entirely plausible. One of the jobs of IT managers
and/or systems administrators is to put in place (and test!) a
disaster recovery plan.

One of the tasks of IT managers is to get management to *fund* said
disaster recovery plan. It's amazing how many don't consider this a
good investment:-(


One statistic I've seen is that, of
those companies that had a business-critical computer problem
and didn't have a disaster recovery plan, 43% never even opened
their doors again, and another 29% did open their doors again,
but went out of business within 2 years. That's nearly a 75%
mortality rate!


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- Logan


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