It’s time for this insurance company’s big annual disaster recovery test, and because this pilot fish has some configuration changes he wants to make before the test, he heads off to the colocation data center a few days ahead of the rest of the team.

“Usually we start at 8 a.m. and finish when it is done — no sleep allowed,” says fish. “I wanted to implement the new configurations so our test would go quicker and we could improve the quality of life during the test.”

Fish arrives, boots up his laptop and starts to work. But five minutes later his video shifts to gray bars, then back to normal. Then it shifts to red and black bars, then back to normal. Finally it shuts itself down.

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