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Consequences of a calamity

Chaos and uncertainty

Demotivated employees

Services or products cannot be supplied (on time)

Financial auditing is no longer possible

Fraud

Damage to Image/brand/reputation

Information is no longer at hand

Vital information is lost

Injured or died (key) employees

Glossary

Calamity:

A calamity mostly arises from an incident of external origin that expands across multiple hardware systems, software systems or even employees. These incidents include:

Fire
Economic boycotts
Epidemics
Hacking
Floods
Sabotage
Software errors
Storm damages
Failing software updates

Of course a failure can result in a calamity. For example, a server that is running too hot for a long time and reports "overheating" as a failure can eventually result in a calamity such as a fire.

Failure:

Briefly formulated a failure is a confined problem that relates to one program or one hardware component. Solutions for failures are mostly found in redundancy and high availability systems ( HA )

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Topic created	:	01-05-2017
Topic last edited	:	01-05-2017

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