Originally Posted by
Self Loading Freight
I think that rumour is credible too - absent a knowledge of how modern the BA data centre's infrastructure actually is. Many cascading faults in corporate infrastructure wouldn't happen if said infrastructure had no legacy systems; but much corporate infrastructure is heavily dependent on legacy systems. And say it didn't happen that way because it couldn't - OK, so how could a modern, well-engineered, inherently reliable system fail so badly? Because it did.
My experience based on decades as a consultant operating directly in the fields of resilience, availability, disaster recovery and business continuity planning is that the legacy systems are always the most robust.