A water main break flooded power infrastructure for a main data center in Dallas County, Texas, this week, slowing the county government and forcing the court system and other departments to revert temporarily to paper forms ...
According to local media, a 2008 audit recommended that the county remedy its lack of a failover site for disaster recovery, but than no action was taken on the study after a few attempts at building such a capability fell through. Fortunately, the county does regularly back up its data ...
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