Tackling system failures needs new paradigm
IN AN era where minimising service disruptions are of prime importance to businesses, the system failure which caused the disruption of trading on Singapore Exchange last week was an unfortunate event. The reality is that, despite the vast IT investments made by big businesses, service disruptions continue to happen. Human error and information technology glitches are commonly cited as reasons for service disruptions and inconveniences.
Extracting comprehensive information from these data centres is a staggering challenge. One would imagine that there are conceivable solutions to plug any potential service disruptions by big businesses to society. But the truth is that these systems will continue to fail, even in this day and age. Given our imperfect world, the overriding consideration should be: If my organisation's critical sys…
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