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Would the CIO get fired if two meteors hit both of their datacenters? What about 256 meteors? Maybe that's not a bad CIO. Maybe nobody is helped by firing him

• derefr 10y ago
  Well, that's what I said above: if meteors hit all your data centres, there's pretty much nothing anyone could have done—no amount of planning—that could have prevented that. (Though there are different scales of expectation at play here—corporations wouldn't be expected to build fault-tolerant backup sites in bunkers and on submarines, but the military would.) But if one meteor—or, more commonly, flooding or a power/internet outage—can cost your large corporation $100MM+ dollars of lost revenue, beyond just the cost of replacing the data-center—then you've set up your architecture all wrong to achieve the KPIs you're being measured on as a CIO, to the point that you probably don't know how to do what you were hired to do. Easier to fire and replace at that point, because the "average" replacement will likely be much better. On the other hand, firing someone if a DDoS takes down their business is not really justifiable these days, because the average CIO doesn't have enough experience with DDoSes to know how to build for that case. In such a case, the replacement CIO also wouldn't know, so you'd be throwing away built-up experience by firing them.