How 9/11 Changed Information Technology

[someone_4]

Hello everyone ..
I was watching the screensavers on tech tv yesterday. And they had Ed Yourdon talking about his book. One of the big things that came up was the way we look at all aspects of security since 9-11. I was wondering if anyone has noticed a change in the IT world sicne 9-11? Not just in security but just over all. And here is the link to the article about this. Any and all thoughts are welcome.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,24330,3377785,00.html

Richard

[harry d brown jr]

Richard,

Our CEO visited NYC, and upon his return he demanded a third data center far away from our current ones.

live free or die
harry

[Robert Gamble]

My biggest customer has finally agreed to fund 'real' disaster recovery plans and actually implement them, including remote data center(s).

[Tracey]

My company is headquartered in NYC, but operations is spread throughout the US and globally. Our processes haven't really changed because of 9/11.

We have NO direct connection from our WAN to the outside internet. We have yearly disaster recovery reviews. We have a company for offsite storage of backups and a contract with a disaster recovery site for operations while we get/rebuild the site that was lost.

I realize though, that we are probably one of the exceptions.

[Michael Tully]

Hi Richard,

We have two data centres and we are now
looking at a DR plan where one site compliments the other. Mission critical applications can be switched on from either site and our warehouses will continue to
operate.

I have no idea at this stage as when any of
this will be tested..... or if it will work, but at least we some plans.

Harry, does that mean you'll be dragged away to
do some actual work instead of being in here...

Cheers
-Michael

:^))

[John Payne_2]

We have seen that the funding model has changed compared to previous years. We used to never worry about getting servers for projects or replacing older machines when it was time. This was the first year that we actually got nickel and dime'd. We only got about 1/2 the machines we asked for this year. The powers that be are most more frugal with the money.

Other than that, we are in a quiet town at a private university. I think people spend more time away from work than they did, even though we do more with less people.

I do not think "Information Technology" has changed so much, more our attitudes towards life has changed.

John

[Roger Baptiste]

The only change i could see was the DRP tests and its results are given top priority. (even earlier it had priority, but its got that extra edge to it now).

That's the only one directly related to IT i can think off. The tangential ones are more security to the datacenter etc .

-raj

[John Bolene]

We have put a slightly larger priority on disaster recovery.

But the biggest effect has been the cancelling of all travel plans for training. All training has to take place at our own facilities by having the instructor travel to us. And that also has been few and far between as there has not been any training held since then.

I was scheduled for 2 HP classes, one in September and one in October that were cancelled and have not been rescheduled.

In my opinion, one aspect of disaster recovery that is seldom addressed is having adequate backup for people and making sure that they are able to do their jobs after an event has happened. Most DR is concerned with the physical data center and hardware issues, not people issues.