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BP Oil Spill
What has the BP OIL SPILL to do with IT Infra-structure??
A recent article in Forbes by Kenneth G. Brill highlights this. ( http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/25/oil-spill-engineering-technology-cio-network-bp.html)
His five reliability priciples are:
- 1. Multiple things must line up before failure can occur (catastrophic failures are extremely rare).
- 2. Junior management error is the most frequent root cause. Why protect against something that probably won't happen?
- 3. Very carefully control configuration changes. In BP's case the drilling rig was being disconnected at the time of explosion.
- 4. Look for unintended interactions between adjacent systems. For instance, unexpected freezing conditions prevented the first BP well cap from working.
- 5. Be very, very careful toward the very end of long-term projects.
Although in different form and context those principles has been the reason for our succes in designing and delivering solutions for the financial industry.
With security breaches on the rise for electronic transaction, knowledge and experience is a major differenciator we have available from our team of experts.
Taking reliable hardware / software platforms as a base, our architectual designs and implementations are geared towards high performance but still costs effective computing solutions.
Our Core Suite, aimed at financial organizations who want to move to Unix based platforms, is an example of the difference.
Sent us an email at marketing@diamond-concepts.com if you are interested in our solutions.