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White House CIO Describes His 'Worst Day' Ever

Posted by Soulskill on from the need-a-bipartisan-effort-to-swap-out-a-machine dept.

dcblogs writes "In the first 40 days of President Barack Obama's administration, the White House email system was down 23% of time, according to White House CIO Brook Colangelo, the person who also delivered the 'first presidential Blackberry.' The White House IT systems inherited by the new administration were in bad shape. Over 82% of the White House's technology had reached its end of life. Desktops, for instance, still had floppy disk drives, including the one Colangelo delivered to Rahm Emanuel, Obama's then chief of staff and now Mayor of Chicago. There were no redundant email servers."

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  1. Re:Not a bad number by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is completely out of the question. Unless the email server also includes file sharing, calendaring, a contact database, all supporting multiple group and individual access rights, it simply can't be used for email.

    And the product name must include "Windows" or "Live" in the title, preferably both. And if it can be configured to only support Windows machines, we'll pay double.

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  2. Re:Not a bad number by X0563511 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft: where "five nines" means 9.9999%.

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