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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Uhh, the world's best network would still fail to access an enterprise system that is offline. Nehkara's problems aren't related to their network plan. The problem is that the central servers hosting his software are gone at the moment.
The failure here (and in my company's case) is a lack of redundancy hosted at another site. But we can survive without SAP for a couple days. I'm not sure how critical Nehkara's systems are, but if they were of the type that would impact client care, I suspect AHS would have had that redundancy in those systems.
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Here is what I was referring to specifically
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Originally Posted by Nehkara
Things are just a mess here at work (Foothills Hospital)....
As a backup to that we do things on tape and save them to a network drive.
Network drive is gone.
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To not have local server access at a facility the size of a major hospital (probably second largest in the province) as a backup is poor network design on the part of AHS imo.
I am sure the reasoning is cost related (Big Blue as a contractor who leases 3 floors at Shaw) because it would require multiple onsite support persons at Foothills and you dont get the scalability and downward pressure on costs that centralizing everything can provide.
AHS designed a network that has a single point of failure and no local backup plan. Dont get me wrong, alot of companies work like that; if MacDonalds or Dairy Queen loses their telco access then their debit machines wont work. I just assumed AHS would have planned their network some some sort of local file server backup.