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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
And for ATB.
And the failures for both those companies has nothing to do with Shaw - Shaw just leases space, it was those companies and their IT partners that made decisions about where to house gear, and whether or not to spread that gear around multiple datacenter facilities, have a hot standby site, etc.
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To be honest ATB actually seemed like essential things are designed for some sort of redundancy. Debit and Credit transactions wernt affected and their brick/mortar stores provide redundancy for checking balances and pay your bills if you did them online.
Its the AHS reports that are of serious concern. Private companies (especially banks) should be of little concern to the average Albertan IMO.
It depends. Its been reported the "buidling" was planned for dual redundancy and yet a mechancial room fire on 1 floor caused the redundancy to mean nothing. If IBM decides to place data servers in a building claiming to have have a redundancy guarantee then its the buildings fault (who owns the building, who knows).
The AHS issues eventually reside with AHS whether or not it was directly their fault, they chose IBM as a contractor because its cheaper than having it house. That is why you outsource anything.
I realize how government works, for AHS only looks after the CHR then it doesnt make financial sense to have multiple data centres. The problem is they dont seem to have 1 proper 1. Offloading that responsibility to a contractor in a 3rd party building is not great planning for a private company and is terrible planning for AHS which runs hospitals. The very least they need to do is have a proper data centre in a building they own. Those would be defendable costs.
Having 2 data centres for AHS if all they handle is Calgary is too cost prohibitive, if they had that and the cost came out then every b1tcher and complainer out there would ask "why arent we spending that money on fronline workers blah blah blah). Even private companies with billions a year in profit only have 1 offsite data centre but that data centre will have network and power redundancies (100% is impossible but 3-6 9's is more likely).