So who did BA outsource their IT to?

[northernladyuk]

Interestingly that was what i was alluding to in earlier posts....

Maybe i need a tin hat too!

[AtW]

Interestingly that was what i was alluding to in earlier posts....

Maybe i need a tin hat too!

You need a tin hut mate.

[uk contractor]

British Airways chaos and was cost cutting to blame? | Daily Mail Online

[NotAllThere]

A colleague at client site used to work for BA, so asked around. Allegedly...

TCS were told to apply some security patches - Linux and Windows. They applied them, then shutdown and attempted to restart the entire data centre. This immediately caused various components to fail. Memory chips and network cards particularly affected. Hence "power supply issue". Since TCS were given 24 hours to apply the patches and did it in ten minutes, they're due a bonus*.



* This bit I made up.

[DimPrawn]

British Airways.

Owned by a Spanish holdings company.
All the doings done in Mumbai.

Gotta love globalisation and how that rewards us in Britain.

[jamesbrown]

Could be a false flag, like when sas says something clever.

[Bee]

British Airways.

Owned by a Spanish holdings company.
All the doings done in Mumbai.

Gotta love globalisation and how that rewards us in Britain.

Iberia has 44% and British 56% of the shares, with is, Iberia can't decide anything alone.

[WTFH]

British Airways.

Owned by a Spanish holdings company.
All the doings done in Mumbai.

Gotta love globalisation and how that rewards us in Britain.

Didn't British Airways used to be a British company until Maggie sold it off?

...better not say that, it's actually Jeremy Corbyn and Europe's fault.

[WTFH]

Iberia has 44% and British 56% of the shares, with is, Iberia can't decide anything alone.

Iberia? Doesn't Iberia include Portugal?
In other words, Bee, can you tell us what you were doing that caused BA's computers to crash?

[VectraMan]

A colleague at client site used to work for BA, so asked around. Allegedly...

TCS were told to apply some security patches - Linux and Windows. They applied them, then shutdown and attempted to restart the entire data centre. This immediately caused various components to fail. Memory chips and network cards particularly affected. Hence "power supply issue". Since TCS were given 24 hours to apply the patches and did it in ten minutes, they're due a bonus*.

Bloke on the telly just now said that a power surge caused the network hardware to fail, so the servers couldn't talk to each other.

I guess it never occurred to anyone to plug in a spare switch. Or buy a surge protector.