Terry - Somerset
Established Member
Facebook - a company worth half the annual output of the whole UK economy. They are not small, they are bigger than very very big.
Yet despite mega profits and the pick of the worlds IT intelligensia, they are incapable of operating a resilient service, incapable of duplication of IT servers, operating a contingency service, no multiple processor capabilities etc etc .
In summary they have displayed the IT competence and maturity of a second rate retailer or bank. Their explanations are somewhat implausible, but cannot be entirely discounted.
However, there are other more plausible explanations which may or may not be true, and which would cause far greater embarrasment:
Yet despite mega profits and the pick of the worlds IT intelligensia, they are incapable of operating a resilient service, incapable of duplication of IT servers, operating a contingency service, no multiple processor capabilities etc etc .
In summary they have displayed the IT competence and maturity of a second rate retailer or bank. Their explanations are somewhat implausible, but cannot be entirely discounted.
However, there are other more plausible explanations which may or may not be true, and which would cause far greater embarrasment:
- a simple hack by a few malicious people who found a way to disrupt their systems
- governments have finally acted upon the uncontrolled power wielded by social media
- hostile government action - China, Russia, N.Korea?
- corporate blackmail