Sentence examples for computer disasters from inspiring English sources
Already Transport Direct threatens to become another addition to the catalogue of government computer disasters.
Also in Ann Arbor, 48 cars and trucks waited outside Malleks, the lone gas station functioning this morning, courtesy of a generator the owner had bought a few years ago, anticipating computer disasters at the start of 2000.
Only the determination of the Transport Select Committee under its redoubtable chairman, Gwyneth Dunwoody, forced an independent inquiry.A more interventionist auditing system similar to the Government Accounting Office GAOO) in the United States, which audits projects at a much earlier stage, might detect computer disasters in the making.
Mr. Beck, 37, is a senior account executive in Fairfield, Conn., for SunGard Recovery Services, a computer disaster recovery business.
In the 1970s, he began warning about the Y2K bug, explaining to Richard Nixon's advisers the computer disaster that could occur in the year 2000.
The Hewlett-Packard Company will challenge SunGard Data System's agreement to acquire the computer disaster-recovery business of Comdisco Inc. for $825 million in a bankruptcy-court auction.
He is reluctant to pre-judge an ongoing investigation, but stresses that any warnings about impending computer disaster had not reached board level.
Comdisco Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July, agreed to sell its computer disaster-recovery business to the Hewlett-Packard Company for $750 million.
In late October, federal antitrust officials moved to block the $825 million acquisition of Comdisco's Availability Solutions, a computer disaster-recovery concern, arguing that it would reduce competition.
On a conference call a few days ago to announce a 98% drop in second quarter profitability, CEO John Anderson said the computer disaster was a "substantial" factor in a 19% decline in US sales and the subsequent profit meltdown.
SunGard Data Systems, which makes software to handle stock and bond trades, has agreed to buy an unprofitable rival, Guardian iT, for £56 million ($81.5 million) to expand its computer disaster-recovery company in Europe.
