| Not that much controversy over that. HHS said most of the same this morning...I (and many folks) disagree with the premise that MarkLogic had anything to do with it. If the exact same processes and analysis were applied to a LAMP stack or an Oracle Exa-stack, the results would have likely been the same. I think the public news about the firewall sizing (4G instead of 50G) supports my claim. So far, there have been two contractors that have been changed out - QSSI took over from CGI to lead rebuild and, recently, Terramark to be replaced by HP. Maybe this has absolutely nothing to do with not being familiar with MarkLogic. http://kellblog.com/2013/12/01/the-pillorying-of-marklogic-w... There was a healthcare exchange built 100% on Oracle in Oregon (Oracle team, Oracle packaged software including Siebel, Peoplesoft, IDM, Oracle integration SW + people,Oracle infrastructure, Oracle hosting). It's not going particularly well. I don't think familiarity of technology has one thing to do with it. I do think that MarkLogic's ability to be agile - programming (EasyApp), infrastructure (speed of transition) and performance - have a great deal to do with the speed of the team being able to deal with the software bugs above MarkLogic and the weak infrastructure around us. (For those joining this conversation in progress, I'm a product manager at MarkLogic - I'm in charge of infrastructure like storage, performance monitoring and cloud platforms.) |
The latter could be related to MarkLogic; I don't know about Terramark, but I hope HP isn't in this business except to provide at minimum full hardware solutions, not just a co-lo's power, cooling, connectivity and so on. I.e. better able to provide today's "big iron". Even if the current database instance has been beefed up by 12 dedicated servers, I've seen complaints the storage system is not up to snuff, and I know that's an HP focus (in fact, I'm doing a monthly full backup of my home systems to an HP LTO-4 tape drive right now...).
Or maybe Terramark isn't in a position to provide a backup site, something neglected to date....
My Google Fu isn't up to finding the technical firewall issue, do you have a pointer handy? It did find mention of the Administration freaking out when insurer giant United Healthcare bought QSSI before the election....
Your former CEO has the usual good things to say by anyone with a clue; I just hope the meme doesn't build up that MarkLogic was at fault. Especially since it was forced on reluctant contractors, that's enough to get a lot of the learned one thing and not about to learn another types to bad mouth it, apparently from a position of technical authority. Then again, how many of these technical people are in reporters' Rolodexes?
"I do think that MarkLogic's ability to be agile - programming (EasyApp), infrastructure (speed of transition) and performance - have a great deal to do with the speed of the team being able to deal with the software bugs above MarkLogic and the weak infrastructure around us."
Hmmm, I'll be looking for evidence of that in the serious postmortems that'll be coming out over the next decade or so, assuming it continues to be a nightmare if the backend connections to insurers fail to deliver quality data, as various of these articles are suggesting. Not to mention the previously mentioned not even working on the software to pay them, a very complicated thing....
Good luck.