Thu 2 Nov 2006
One of problems in having your own internal IT guy is that there is no peer review. The IT person is isolated and works without restraint or review. In contrast the engineering team assigned to you on your LANcom 770 plan works to continually approved methodologies and techniques and the work that they do is under consistent peer review.
When you employ your own IT guy there are no guidelines and no review.
The biggest meltdowns we come across –system failures where there is no full recovery and partial recovery is expensive and long winded - are always where the lone IT guy has gone feral. More often than not the system failure was self inflicted by a massively overconfident operator who had no body to rein him in.