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So the ‘HP Tandem Non-Stop hardware’ actually stopped working, for a whole day! I wonder if a name like “Non-Stop Hardware” is a jinx for your product from the get go .

Conspiracy theory

Conspiracy theorist postulate that this incident was more of a covert shutdown than an unexpected downtime. How can a system that is so advanced, an organisation that runs disaster recovery drills every couple of months and that invests 30% of its RM200mil operating cost on technology succumb to what seems to be a RAID array not recovering fast enough? Surely there is a conspiracy!

I however disagree. Why?

• The suggested motive is weak. The selldown would of happened, whether or not Bursa stopped trading, as it did the next day. So what did this get them other then a further loss in confidence?
• Datuk Yusli has had a credible tenure at Bursa, there are no good grounds to doubt his word now.
• The equities trading system running today (something called Score and Masa) has been slated to be replaced with a new system from Atos Euronext Market Solutions Ltd. for at least the past 4 years! I still remember attending an orientation meeting at Bursa for companies that pull the Bursa equities feed, and this was way back in 2005. The vendors did not seem to confident about the switchover.
• And finally, I got assurance from someone at HP that this was really a fucked up hard disk. What can you do, shit happens.

Heads are supposedly going to roll. I am sure other CIO’s in KL are going over their disaster recovery plans. And if they aren’t they should be.

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