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=**Welcome to Ahmed and Clancy's wiki and the topic is tsunamis. Tsunami, the effects of an IT major incident tsunami can be devastating. Examples of major incident tsunamis are:**= When a major incident tsunami hits, the internal support capabilities of an organization are overwhelmed. The best method to handle these occureneces is to bring in IT firefighters on short term contracts, to deal with the issue. These IT firefighters will be skilled in dealing with major incident tsunamis and be experienced and skilled in the processes of resolving them. 
 * worm or virus outbreak like the Nimda virus.
 * patching bug that disables a large proportion of a corporate's desktop.
 * power failure in the data centre where the backup systems fail to operate.
 * when a redundant system experiences a failure to both redundant components.
 * security certificates expiring on a large number of networked devices, resulting in them all becoming inoperable.
 * a migration process fault where a flood of calls hits a call centre simultaneously.

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