JP Deslauriers spends his working life making enterprise systems from different eras work together: proprietary controllers, mainframes and aging servers that an operation still depends on and cannot simply switch off. His background is supply chain and legacy-systems integration, with particular depth in automotive, additive manufacturing and perishables.
On Escalation Zone he writes about the same problem where the stakes are higher. Mission and public-safety environments run accredited systems for a long time, keep separate networks apart on purpose, and need a way to keep working when the digital tools are unavailable. His posts look at those choices from every side of the table: the operator at the console, the security and accreditation teams, the budget holder and the leadership that has to sign off.