The Scenario
I didn??™t witness this one firsthand, but the person who did shared it with me. I confirmed
later that this disaster really did happen.
The victim in this scenario was yet another manufacturing company. It had a great
IT department, a well-organized on-site data center, and excellent IT and business integration.
There was excellent communication among the people, whether they worked
on the manufacturing floor, in finance, or in engineering or IT. For the most part, everyone
got along well.
In the server room, rack-mounted devices were on the left, mid-range servers were
on the right, and a storage cabinet containing a month??™s worth of tape backup history
was at the end of the room. A few people were in the server room working on installing
new equipment into the racks. Certain individuals from the engineering department had
access to the server room. Those individuals doubled as backup help for cabling issues
and miscellaneous IT tasks.
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One of the non-IT people came into the server room and announced, ???Hey, check
out this cleanup device we got for the shop floor.
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