And is the guy who pushed for redundant backups going to get a raise or promotion? Unlikely.
Backup Bill, they call him. He will nominated for the highest honor bestowed to lowly overworked IT workers. An off the books comp day. And maybe cake.
The result: more than half a million UniSuper fund members had no access to their accounts for about a week, The Guardian reported last week. UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2.
This sound reaaally bad for Google. Sure it makes sense to have a backup, but needing that lifeline because Google failed at the one job they had - ouch!
Btw. the rest of the article is interesting, too.Think about this for a minute: This is a story about someone who called Google with a problem and Google answered.
