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Never underestimate what people would do to keep the stock market running...
by chinathrow 11y ago
Never underestimate what people would do to keep the stock market running...
- stephengillie 11y agoThese days, I'd hope they can failover to standby hosts in "IL#" or "VA#" or another datacenter in a nearby region. The DR/BC space has become pretty robust, and with the right vendor, a datacenter loss can be recovered from simply by powering on fully-replicated VMs in another datacenter.
- minimax 11y agoOr do! They closed the markets in the US for two days during Sandy even though NY4 (and the other US equity exchange data centers) were fine. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204789304578087131092892180 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702047893045780871...
- capote 11y agoSometimes it feels like the opposite. Any day that has the slightest hint of holiday to it is "markets closed! remember no work tomorrow! hooray for national silly lala day!"