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Northrop Grumman Says 'I'm Sorry' For Virginia IT Outage

Posted by Soulskill on from the wipe-the-tears-away-with-benjamins dept.

Lucas123 writes "After a storage area network in a data center run by Northrop Grumman went down last week, crippling 26 state agencies' websites — some for more than a week — Northrop Grumman has now apologized to Virginia, saying it will learn from its mistakes in order to recover systems faster in the future. Northrop's $2.6 billion service contract with Virginia's government has come under harsh criticism in the past for service outages, along with project delays and cost overruns."

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  1. Apt Futurama quote by dkleinsc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hermes: What do we do when we break somebody's window?
    Dwight: Pay for it?
    Hermes: Heavens, no! We apologize! With nice, cheap words.

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