Posted on 11/27/2013 6:10:08 PM PST by matt04
The Department of Health and Human Services has tapped Hewlett-Packard to replace Verizon Communications' Terremark subsidiary as the Web-hosting provider for HealthCare.gov, the federal health insurance marketplace that has had a troubled rollout since launching in October.
A spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services division confirmed the move Wednesday but noted that the change in providers had been contracted well before the website launched.
"As we think about the overall performance and functionality of the site, redundancy is a critical part of our planning and we are working to ensure it in all aspects of the system," the spokesman said in an email to CNBC.
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Now they blame the ISP?
How many web sites does HP host?
ObamaCare Vaporware Version 666.06.666 beta
Redundancy isn't going to do them much good when they realize they have over half a billion lines of code to find and correct all the security vulnerabilities in.
Down in the Verizon engineering labs, their hands will be so blistered from high-fiving that they won’t be able to drive home.
ObamaCare: When announcing you lost a major federal contract makes your employees celebrate not having to support it.
HP is doing it for free! The new fix will be to print out the 666 page application,
then fill it out with a #2 pencil,
then go to the dmv for a photo I’d,
Then go to the post office to file.
The democrat politicians milked Verizon of the last penny in kickbacks they could afford.
Now they have a new cow.
They may be experienced with configuring numbers of servers to interact smoothly.
So that's why their stock was up today, also they had a good 3rd quarter.
It sounds like the car won’t start so they decide to replace the garage.
First, there is a lot wrong with Obamcare that is not just the website.
Second, HP has a better IT dept. than Verizon.
And Verizon should have never been chosen in the first place.
Hee hee. So they are just getting around to realizing they need a backup. Any bets on whether they are thinking about how to make the redundant data consistent? Huh - wha's that?
“HP is doing it for free! The new fix will be to print out the 666 page application”...
...which will be printed on Government-owned HP printers, using government-supplied HP ink...
Actually...trading Verizon for HP? This is gonna get REAL, REAL good..a tip to everyone here: do NOT put salt on your popcorn - you will be eating so much, you’ll kill yourselves.
Wow! The Obammunists must REALLY be panicking to switch horses in midstream, because the chances that things get worse, much worse, before they get better (if ever) with a change of this magnitude is about 100%.
Besides, picking HP to do this instead of Verizon is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. If they had REALLY wanted to pick a competent company and website host, they’d have picked google or amazon or the like.
Besides, how can they just “pick” anyway? Whatever happened to the quaint concept of “bidding” to select the most cost-effective government contractor anyway?
IF they can get the HP printers to work.
If HP left the old EDS web hosting service line intact there are a bunch (don't remember the numbers).
Verizon was replaced. Replacement was for redundancy?
I would suspect Verizon got pissed and quit. I would think the meetings since October 1 have been ferocious.
As the fact there was no respite, no glitchfix, no solution, no relief from the crushing weight, meetings got really bad. For Verizon, the best course could have been stay back, way back in the corner of the room and then get the hell out as soon as possible.
You'd what?
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