January 2010
3 posts
The view from elsewhere
Outside the United States, the Great Recession wasn’t nearly as great. Unlike prior economic crises, when governments fell and mobs assaulted the centers of power, there has been little political upheaval and almost no violence. In fact, large swaths of the world – China most notably, but followed closely by Brazil and India – emerged with their relative position enhanced as a result of the...
“@House All Staff
The system outage this morning was the result of a hardware malfunction on the Storage Area Network. This system provides disk services to a majority of legislative servers. All major components of this system are redundant in order to prevent this type of outage, but the redundant components didn’t work correctly this morning.
The vendor is currently assessing the...