Re: On the bright side...
Whilst HP feature here, this could be substituted by any other major vendor. HE in particular suffers from moronic tendering processes, unreasonable requirements for the tender and then the equally unreasonable actual requirements.
One of the huge problems in these types of institutions what an earlier post states, the IT Techies have evolved into the business as Postgraduates. Yes, they may be very clever and can make the tech do all sorts of funky stuff but often that is way off-piste when it comes to reality. The theory may be good but then it is taken to the limit for some very sound theoretical reason but is totally rubbish when a problem strikes and everything comes home to roost.
Management will be following the current trend of "if you are a manager you can mange anything" and have limited understanding and no control of the high-tech bull that is being fed to them.
The KCL outage is extreme but similar things will have happened in these types of places all over the UK and be buried deep in recycling.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
