RBS seem to have had major technology issues

[Ian Garmaise]

>From the Guardian - confessions of an IT salesman

http://bit.ly/Mv3kgD

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Dave Cramer <davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> 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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