[LINK] FLoods taking out banking infrastructure

[Steven Clark]

On 13/01/11 12:50, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> Hi, while I understand the impact of the floods on individuals who
> are up there experiencing the worst of it, I just wanted to report
> that this is starting to have a wider impact on IT services around
> the country....

...

> I thought I would just mention this as many of us don't expect the
> floods to have an impact down here in Sydney, but no one was prepared
> for this and no one is immune!
>
> It does beg the question as to why the CUA would not have a
> geoclustered datacentre or similar offsite ability to maintain
> services......

i suspect this kind of flooding never made it into anyone's risk
planning scenarios.

once upon a time, in a land not so far away, organisations used to have
local replication of services. then it became fashionable to outsource
them, and/or centralise them - to reduce costs.

i wonder how many service centres will have to be rebuilt. how many were
located in qld?

-- 
Steven