CIO for an acutely underfunded department in large but very poor city is not an easy job.
Try as I might, I would never be able to come up with something like this, even if you held a gun to my head. There surely must be a small industry of HR consultants who specialize in writing this kind of drivel
Taking a career-ending bullet like this is Part of what these c-level people sign up for, an occupational hazard, especially In Baltimore
it's somewhat attractive price wise simply because it's a very affordable urban east coast city. there's a vibrant/edgy art scene (to include drama, etc.) that's attractive to younger artists, sort of like what detroit is going through (as i understand it)
https://statescoop.com/4th-cio-leaves-baltimore-within-five-...
It is a corrupt town the facts/history clearly show this. It's where I was grew up/live/work; all within in surrounding counties, which is solid living! Though Baltimore isn't the only corrupt US city!
I've seen many PC-raid hardware solutions that simply didn't work. A drive fails, and the machine becomes unusable, fail to recover when a good drive is inserted, or crashes/hangs and the data is lost.
Yet people keep buying raid solutions for PCs. I recommend: pull a drive from your raid hardware and see what happens. If you're afraid to do that, then you need a different solution.
If you don't have the same confidence in your systems you need to fix that.
The next morning he got a fedex from netapp... a replacement drive.
I once took over management of a startup that was just acquired (this was back in 1999). The people there never did backups. Ever. They told me with a straight face: "We have a RAID. It doesn't need to be backed up."