Risky business: You'd better have a plan for tech to go wrong

Power outages, automation, rollback... and more

Analysis Back in the days of the mainframe, technology risk looked a lot different. You paid a lot of money for a big box in the corner, using software often written by the same supplier. If it went wrong, a nice techie came along and fixed it. Business moved slowly enough that the world didn't come crashing down if you couldn't process data for a few days."