According to InformationWeek, "The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been without access to years' worth of lessons-learned data for nine months, unable to recover access to it since a server failure in May 2010, according to a newly issued report by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general. [...] The database was run by FEMA's Remedial Action Management Program (RAMP), the purpose of which is partially to identify lessons learned from major disasters and other FEMA operations and distribute that information throughout the agency."
The lesson? When your program name starts with the word "remedial", bad stuff is going to happen. Also: when your hardware runs out of support, something otherwise trivial will cripple you pretty much the next day.
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