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This IT pilot fish works in New York City for a company that has a disaster recovery "people site" across the Hudson River in Jersey City, along with a DR computer site in Newark, a few miles away.
"The equipment had supposedly all been moved from Jersey City and reinstalled in Newark," says fish. "When I arrived on the scene, we barely had any communications between the three sites -- and we needed those for possible remote work, data backups, remote DR system monitoring and the like.
"And very little worked. And nothing had been tested. And the systems I needed turned out to still be in a server room in Jersey City that we had supposedly evacuated months before.
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