White House CIO's first 40 days included 'worst day' ever - Computerworld: Over 82% of the White House's technology had reached end of life. Desktops, for instance, still had floppy disk drives, including the one Colangelo delivered to Rahm Emanuel, Obama's then chief of staff and now Mayor of Chicago.
The White House CIO office had one data center, said Colangelo. "We had no redundancy," he said, before attendees of Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference here.
The problems became apparent on Jan 26, six days after the administration was sworn in.
"Our email servers went down for 21 hours," said Colangelo. "In my professional career, there has not been a worst day since or ever."