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The day CrowdStrike broke the Internet, China was largely unaffected. Here’s why

Dashveenjit Kaur — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:56:51 +0000

On July 19, a routine software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike unleashed digital chaos across the globe, exposing the fragility of interconnected IT networks. Within hours, Windows-based systems worldwide crashed, displaying the dreaded “blue screen of death,” affecting 8.5 million devices globally. From New York’s Times Square, where digital billboards went dark, to London’s Heathrow Airport, […]

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40%+ of firms lose revenue from technology downtime and cloud complexity

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:50:19 +0000

55% of enterprises are struggling to derive meaningful insights from their data, highlighting an industry-wide need to deliver technology faster, more reliably and in more places, according to a survey by Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi. The survey revealed ongoing challenges related to security, inflexible systems, isolated […]

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Asda chooses Veeam to mitigate risk of multi-million-pound retail downtime

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:54:53 +0000

Asda has selected Veeam Availability Suite to provide effective backup and restore for mission-critical systems. Following its divestiture from Walmart in early 2021, the supermarket chain has taken responsibility for protecting the large, virtualised infrastructure that underpins its business, and Veeam, a specialist in backup, recovery and data management solutions, has enabled it to do […]

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Downtime impact worsening as industry fails to curb outages

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:56:02 +0000

The digital infrastructure sector is struggling to achieve a measurable reduction in outage rates and severity, and the financial consequences and overall disruption from outages are steadily increasing. This is according to the Uptime Institute, which has released the findings of its 2022 annual Outage Analysis report. Andy Lawrence, founding member and executive director, Uptime […]

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