Part of all this destruction was the
loss of many data distribution centers that our company ran for the Wall Street community.
With the country having a ???get-up-and-running??? attitude and wanting the attack to
have as little impact on day-to-day affairs as possible, the pressure was on our company
to start providing news, quotes, charts, and all the other information that traders needed
to get the stock market up and running. The effort to build new data centers and switch
the Wall Street users over to them by having staff reconfigure each desktop one by one
would take weeks.
The CTO group, with its zero-footprint implementation, ran a T3 line to the
machines in the lab that was hosting the application, opening them to the Internet; set
up a Domain Name System (DNS) server; and were off and running in a matter of hours.
Any trader??”from anywhere??”could open Internet Explorer, point it at a URL, and start
working??¦no technical expertise required!
Thanks to an innovative use of technology, a business need was met??”and that is
what our business is all about.
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