mmmm fishy indeed...maybe someone attacK kl market now lols!..
1997 repeat..ahahaha

Although the system are tough something sh*t happen and maybe due some weird combination of hardware and software issue they cannot bring the server up, for bursa the impact will be huge the CEO and CIO may lost its job.

the official story is the harddisk problem, i find it hard to believe this, the DR site should be bring up resume operation but looks like their DR is not working, something is not right about this. SC and BNM should investigate if they have fake the DR test report, as all financial institution need to DR working and able to swing transaction over within minute, they need to have regular DR test and submit report to BNM, not sure if BURSA system have the same requirement

fyire,

In conclusion, some Malaysian IT people are NOT capable of using the the Nonstop server properly.

"First world infrastructure, third world process and mentality"

Dreamer

cherroy,

1)  In this case, it is BURSA IT people.   But, I had seen ENOUGH examples that to know this problem is MORE wide spread than the bursa.

2) Recently, some Alliance Bank branches are out for one or 2 days too.

As per Godfather movie, "Fish rot from the head first".

Dreamer

The SHORT answer is to manage and run ANY kind of complex system, you NEED GOOD EXPERIENCED PEOPLE to support IT.  So, essentially, you have 2 choices:

A) Train your internal people and pay them well enough so that they stay technical

Or

B) Outsource to someone else but you still NEED GOOD people to monitor them

Malaysian culture is WE spent a lot of MONEY on the hardware.  But, we neither train, pay and keep REAL TECHNICAL people to support and maintain those hardware.  There is NO career path in Malaysia for senior technical people with a lot of experience.  Some took the short cut and hire ex-pats.  But, they REFUSE to hire oversea Malaysians with similar or better experience.  The REASON is they think it is EASIER to control the ex-pats.  But, that is harmful for the future of the country.  In the end, we are in this catch 22 situation that we NEVER get out

A) There are NO GOOD EXPERIENCE TECHNICAL people that deserve very high pay

B) Technical people do not stay technical because they make more money as manager.

In the end, nothing changes and Malaysia cannot go to the next level of IT capabilities.

There are just really basic things from an IT point of view that doesn't make sense in their timeline:

>> Faulty disk replaced

It is now getting standard for servers to have redundancy built-in, especially in the disk storage sub-systems. With RAID arrays, a single or even multiple disk failures don't cause system outages. You can replace those faulty items at some later convenient time, and with hot-swappable/pluggable systems, you don't even need to shut the system down.

>> Backup site start-up process takes longer than expected.

They obviously didn't test this properly and/or regularly enough, or whatever they have implemented is just not appropriate.

Sounds likes there's a few incompetent people in their IT.

Bursa's server that crashed was a HP  NonStop K-Series which is already obsolete and 2 generations old. 

HP released a new line of NonStop S-Series to replace the K-Series back in the late 1990s. In 2008, HP phased out the the S-Series with its new HP's NonStop Integrity line which runs on Intel Itanium processors.  (The K-Series and S-Series runs on MIPS processors)

The Edge had an article this week that implies that Bursa stopped investing on the old server because it was replacing the system with a new trading system from Atos Euronext... but this project was delayed for 2 years...so the old K-Series machine had to keep running and finally died