WEEK 12: CLEAR

This week in ISM3004 I learned a lot about server hardware. This was a valuable learning experience because my previous summer internship I worked in a big office with tons of computers and technology gadgets, but I didn't understand how everything really worked together. These lectures gave me a better idea on how the office protects itself against power failures from lightning storms or circuit breaker trips.

I remember during one meeting we were "skyping" with the office in London in the conference room. The connection went out on one television screen but switched over to the adjacent television screen and the connection dropped. It is great how this technology can protect itself and reduce server administration paranoia.

There was a cluster of networks in the office with different computers connected to many different power supplies - a great therapy to prevent any shortages or losses of important data. I did have on experience where I thought I lost this information; however, when the IT person was called he was able to fix and retrieve it for me. That is how most of his time was used. User error is the greatest cause of lost data.