Case of the Great Hot-Site Swap

BobB writes "Two universities — Bowdoin in Maine and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles — have entered a unique arrangement under which they are backing up each other's web sites, email and servers on different ends of the continent. They say this could be a disaster recovery model all sorts of organizations could follow. From the article: 'When Bowdoin switched over to Exchange e-mail, so the schools would have similar e-mail infrastructure, LMU staffers were their guides and advisers. "We implemented that pretty quickly," says Davis, the Bowdoin CIO. "When we launched Exchange, we had just eight calls to our help desk." And the shared experience of the infrastructure components then forms a kind of informal help desk, where managers and staff can reach out for advice, brainstorm and troubleshoot problems with their colleagues a continent away.'"

Comments

The Great Exchange

[IAmGarethAdams]

When we launched Exchange, we had just eight calls to our help desk.

So they had Exchange running their helpdesk phone system too?

Not nearly as exciting as I first read it...

[Franklin Brauner]

Case of the Great Hot-Wife Swap

Pity. It being a Saturday, I kind of wanted to read that article.

Simple answer

[schon]

How'd this make the front page?! Simple - and you answer it with the first sentence of your post:

The summary mentions a university using Exchange successfully. You're trying to say that this *isn't* front-page news? :)

My mail is backed up in at least 5 centres

[flyingfsck]

CIA, FBI, CSIS, KGB, MI5...

It is the most secure backup system in the world.

Re:My mail is backed up in at least 5 centres

[Kjella]

...says yet another that's never tried a restore.

Re:Lol...

[Vulva R. Thompson, P]

Maybe his parents are Ma Bell and Uncle Sam.

Rumor has it they've been in bed together for years.

Oblig grammer nazi

[Bearhouse]

"lively hood" - is that as opposed to a boring neighborhood?