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Old Aug 28, 2012, 7:35 pm
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jbdk
 
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Originally Posted by Centurion
Anyone have knowledge of what happens in these cases?

With a failure like this what is the fallout? One person fired? An entire department fired ? Or is it like bringing someone back to life who had a heart attack? Or is is the guy who finds the one ethernet gigabit cable unplugged and just plugs in with cheers and celebrations?
In my experience, human error accounts for about 75% of outages like this.

Dont be surprise if a few heads roll...
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