Indeed - Even the recent facebook outage outlined how slow recovery can be if the primary investigation and recovery methods are directly impacted as well. Bac

Indeed - Even the recent facebook outage outlined how slow recovery can be if the primary investigation and recovery methods are directly impacted as well. Back in the old days some environments would have POTS dial-in connections to the consoles as backup for network problems. That of course doesn't scale, but it was an attempt to have an alternate path of getting to things. Regrettably if a backhoe takes out all of the telecom at once that plan doesn't work so well.