Originally Posted by
onylon
Disasters are inevitable, I've personally had to work on infrastructure hit by floods, lightning strikes, DDOS... Some environments were well maintained and failed over cleanly and some were not. Regular fail-over testing may be a pain but it saves a lot of finger pointing and RFO paperwork in the long run.
My latest one was the Hurricane in the NY/NJ area 3 years ago. We were on diesel at both DCs and the roof was coming off one of them. One of the offices filled with fish. That was the DR site whilst NYC was under water.
I am very well versed on this subject. I suspect BA have been as unlucky as any other "Fortune 500" company can be. I strongly suspect it is nothing to do with outsourcing. BA didn't move thousands of servers to Delhi. BA didn't completely redesign their BCP procedures the day after outsourcing some of their services. If it didn't work "today" then it sure as hell didn't work 2 years ago. Guaranteed.