One of the unions has been quick to attribute the issue to the outsourcing to India of some of the IT responsibility, which the right wing press here has been all too eager to publish, but BA have rebuffed this and said at this stage they believe the root cause was a power supply issue - sure, that could be attributed somewhere along the lines to an 'alpha male business asshole' (as I read in one of the comments here), but it's probably best to wait and see what the post-mortem really is rather than seek to blame someone, somewhere, be it a businessman, an Indian dev team or anything else.
I am reminded of a post a while back regarding AWS' issues affecting multiple data centres (I forget the specifics), and how their post mortem didn't appropriate blame on anyone (which it really easily could have), but rather their own checks and balances, which allowed the issue to arise in the first place. I do hope that when the dust settles we see a measured response rather than a witch hunt.
I am reminded of a post a while back regarding AWS' issues affecting multiple data centres (I forget the specifics), and how their post mortem didn't appropriate blame on anyone (which it really easily could have), but rather their own checks and balances, which allowed the issue to arise in the first place. I do hope that when the dust settles we see a measured response rather than a witch hunt.