top | item 25634716 (no title) teagee | 5 years ago This reminds me of what happened to the financial services Cantor Fitzgerald after 9/11, just replacing a system with hundreds of lost employees:https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-... discuss order hn newest nobody9999|5 years ago I was at CF (at new offices, obviously) briefly a couple weeks after 9/11.They had backups and were able to recover data and systems.By the time I got there, they were somewhat functional.The biggest problems were the lack of knowledgeable personnel, not lost data or systems. teagee|5 years ago Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes. load replies (1)
nobody9999|5 years ago I was at CF (at new offices, obviously) briefly a couple weeks after 9/11.They had backups and were able to recover data and systems.By the time I got there, they were somewhat functional.The biggest problems were the lack of knowledgeable personnel, not lost data or systems. teagee|5 years ago Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes. load replies (1)
teagee|5 years ago Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes. load replies (1)
nobody9999|5 years ago
They had backups and were able to recover data and systems.
By the time I got there, they were somewhat functional.
The biggest problems were the lack of knowledgeable personnel, not lost data or systems.
teagee|5 years ago