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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) writes: > He may also have been thinking about the "Great Chicago Flood" of a > few years ago, when several prominent Chicago banks learned the folly > of computer rooms in basements and sub-basements. previous post in thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#28 Storage Philosophy Question i remember places like Chicago Board of Trade also being affected wasn't it construction or some other event that resulted in a break in subsurface dam/barrier that was designed to keep the lake out? note that even if the computer rooms aren't there ... lots of the related utilities, power backup, etc ... frequently are. this is akin to the multitude of backhole vulnerabilities; prossibly one of the most famous was the isolating the new england internet several years ago. supposedly the original infrastructure had carefully laid out diverse routing for nine different circuits running over nine different physical trunks. over the years, while nobody was paying attention, all the circuits were eventually consolidated into one physical trunk ... which one day was attacked by a backhoe and taken out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
