Servered with plastic

From: Scott Hedrick (dinehnm_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:31:17 -0400

Also at NASA Watch today:

Plastic sheets are not the way to insure network survivability
7 September 2004: Cape Canaveral: KSC employees told to report to work
Monday unless otherwise contacted, Florida Today

"The Process Control Center had severe water damage after losing part of its
roof. It's the hub of the e-mail and Web system for the shuttle launch
complex, but because the computers were covered with plastic, the damage
assessors think they probably were protected, KSC Director Jim Kennedy
said."

 Editor's note: Housing a webserver, email server - or any vital computer
network hub in such a fragile location "covered with plastic" is just nuts.
The fact that this facility is a few miles from the ocean, a few feet above
sea level in a state prone to tropical storms and hurricanes makes me wonder
just what the KSC folks were thinking - especially in a post 9/11 world.

I certainly hope NASA is going to catch up with the rest of the world and
have secure, offsite mirror web facilities - such as those commonly used in
the private sector. These armored, windowless facilities have
uninterruptible back-up power, as well as server and connectivity
redundancy. Fortunately, I understand that this storm has led to some
definitive movement to fix this situation as NASA continues to develop its
new web portal infrastructure.

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