A designer of software for the legal profession. The author has been involved in development and design of case management and accounts software for 20 years.Designs systems inside Outlook like Conveyancing and Crime system
Imagine walking into your office only to discover that there is no power! No kettle, no computers, no lights no voltage, nothing! This happened at 3am on Monday the 8th of September 2008 in the Enfield area, where DPS’s main office is based.
This was clearly a disaster since DPS provide a hostingservice to over 400 computers that meant that no one could do any work, or could they? DPS are an author of case management and accounts software for the legal profession.
When disaster recovery plans are put in place you can never really know if they are going to work until you have a disaster and of course that is often too late! Well, at 3:00:01am the DPS UPS (uninterruptible power supplies) kicked in to keep the servers running followed swiftly by the backup generators which supplied power to the servers in the DPS server rooms. This meant that when the hosted users logged on they were able to work from 09:18am onwards losing less than 20 minutes of the working day!
Scott Ridley, technical director of DPS said, “I was delighted that the efforts we had gone to in putting together our disaster recover worked well for our clients, you can’t know how good the plans are until they are tested in a real situation.”
Monday the 8th September also proved to be a day for technical glitches at the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Traders turning up for a days work at the LSE were confronted with a complete system failure. The problems are reported to be the result of a computer software glitch. Traders could not connect to the LSE system for nearly seven hours, meaning that almost a whole day’s trading was lost.
Normal service at DPS and the LSE resumed the following morning with everyone crossing fingers that these problems do not resurface in at least the next year or so!
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