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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.'"
It's all about freedom, as long as you do what he wants you to.
Anyone who thinks Exchange is a great tool has probably never performed administration of a production Exchange server.
Exchange is a sysadmin's nightmare. It's great from the end-user's point of view, but from the sysadmin's point of view, it's flaky and broken and crashes if you breath on it too hard.
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