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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. Re:It was EMC storage failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are injecting facts into a /. discussion. Are you new here;-)

  2. Re:Apt Futurama quote by Amouth · · Score: 0, Troll

    i'd like to see the whole transcript to be honest - that looks like a little spin to me.

    the first quote is statement of fact - the second is obviously in relation - but to what extent?

    also note that keeping fields going doesn't exactly translate to drill more..

    for you to take that and translate it to

    "Approve permits for our off-shore drilling, or we won't pay."

    is what i call over spin/fear mongering.

    --
    '...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'