I live in Cincinnati and we have storms like this every few years. Comair has been lucky in prior years that this application hasn't choked. My hunch is that Comair has been growing in the past few years and has added more pilots and stewardesses which caused the application to meet that critical breaking point in a storm like they had.
But, to not have any type of contingency plan in place is insane! Even a hot site or live backup server could have helped them in regards to limiting how many changes could be made after the crash. Load balancing hardware and software could have helped.
I have worked with hundreds of IT departments in large companies over 22 years and having a fail over system and a contingency plan has been priority 1. IT shops understand how much it costs their companies to be down just one hour.
No matter what software or hardware Comair is using, there is no excuse not to have redundancy.
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I live in Cincinnati and we have storms like this every few years. Comair has been lucky in prior years that this application hasn't choked. My hunch is that Comair has been growing in the past few years and has added more pilots and stewardesses which caused the application to meet that critical breaking point in a storm like they had. But, to not have any type of contingency plan in place is insane! Even a hot site or live backup server could have helped them in regards to limiting how many changes could be made after the crash. Load balancing hardware and software could have helped. I have worked with hundreds of IT departments in large companies over 22 years and having a fail over system and a contingency plan has been priority 1. IT shops understand how much it costs their companies to be down just one hour. No matter what software or hardware Comair is using, there is no excuse not to have redundancy.