In Today's Wall Street Journal, another story of woe from the IRS Lerner e-mail story. IRS now claims that it was not keeping backups for longer than 6 months and archived e-mail was stored on individual machines, so when they crashed, they could not be recovered. Incredible.
First, this isn't even standard business practice, and if true, a few CIO heads should roll. The article also says they were using tape for backup, which is somewhat hard to believe. There have been a hundred or so versions of "IRS Modernization" sold to Congress in the past 25 years, and one of them must have addressed backup and recovery of the network. We did not get our money's worth on that one.
The point of yesterday's story was the incredibility of the statements coming from the IRS. All this does is add to them. No organization in government does this kind of IT. There is no reason to believe IRS would either.
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