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Submission + - "Unprecedented" Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by swm on Saturday May 18, 2024 @12:05AM

swm writes: Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud's biggest blunders ever: Google accidentally deleted a giant customer account for no reason. UniSuper, an Australian pension fund that manages $135 billion worth of funds and has 647,000 members, had its entire account wiped out at Google Cloud, including all its backups that were stored on the service. UniSuper thankfully had some backups with a different provider and was able to recover its data, but according to UniSuper's incident log, downtime started May 2, and a full restoration of services didn't happen until May 15.

Submission + - Baltimore police dept. still using Lotus Notes (baltimoresun.com)

Submitted by swm on Thursday August 09, 2018 @04:19PM

swm writes: The Baltimore police department is still using an antiquated (1996) case-management system based on Lotus notes.

From a recent technology assessment: "millions of records" ... "150 databases" ... "siloed nature" ... "difficult to match, verify or search" ... "conflicting information" ... "detectives continue compiling and using paper case folders".

The consultant who is paid to maintain the system says that it is “working wonderfully for the police.”

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