RBS seem to have had major technology issues

[Dave Cramer]

Well high availability as they sell it is a myth. It is extremely
difficult to test all the possible scenarios.

It's not surprising that the odd bank goes down every once in a while.

Dave Cramer


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Robert Brockway
<robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, William Muriithi wrote:
>
>> Wonder if any other bank have had such an extensive outage, apparently
>
>
> Other banks have certainly had serious outages in recent years.  One of the
> Big Five banks (RBC?) had a serious outage a few years ago which left people
> briefly unpaid.  Similarly, a couple of Australia's "Big Four" banks have
> had brief outages in recent months (IIRC).
>
> Banks used to be bastions of highly available redundant systems.  I wonder
> if times are changing.  If a bank is too big to be allowed to fail then
> perhaps it is also too big to be allowed to have an outage :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
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