A bungled Hitachi storage area networking (SAN) upgrade has delayed the payout of over $18 million in benefits in Oregon. The SAN failure began Monday evening in the state capital of Salem, and was fixed by Tuesday morning, with various state agencies taking the day to work through a backlog of jobs that had built up. " …

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Wednesday 17th July 2013 02:41 GMT Nate Amsden

sarcasm alert

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Obviously if they had a cloud this wouldn't of happened, time to go CLOUD, as it never has problems, it just works like magic.

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Wednesday 17th July 2013 08:25 GMT Cloud=Complete Lack Of Understanding Datacenter

And I thought they had 100% uptime, at least that's what the sales guy said?

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1. Wednesday 17th July 2013 10:27 GMT seven of five
  
  At least over here they claim 100% data integrity, which is very much different from uptime or availability.
  
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  1. Wednesday 17th July 2013 19:52 GMT Solmyr ibn Wali Barad
    
    Got that in writing? 100% is nigh impossible to achieve.
    
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Wednesday 17th July 2013 09:02 GMT Alex in Tokyo

I guess

this is filed under BOFH because he actually ... diverted ... the funds to his account in the Caymans?

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1. Wednesday 17th July 2013 10:03 GMT ShadowDragon8685
  
  Re: I guess
  
  Aye, this is either massively miscategorized, or Simon has some 'splainin' to do.
  
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Wednesday 17th July 2013 13:16 GMT William Boyle

Ah yes, the evil of a single point of failure! The architects of this network storage implementation should be taken out to the village stocks and pelted with rotten tomatoes!

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Thursday 18th July 2013 02:28 GMT Anonymous Coward

A little more technical info please ..

What OS/Hardware/Network configuration did it run on?

What was the nature of the upgrade?

Just who in their right mind upgrades a live system?

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