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When Minutes Matter: The Iberian Peninsula Outage and the Future of Digital Resilience by Eduardo Crespo

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On April 28, 2025, Spain, Portugal, and briefly some parts of France experienced what would become one of Europe’s most significant power outages in recent history. Yet Another Wake-Up Call This isn’t just another outage story. This outage teaches us otherwise.

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How Financial Entities Can Turn IT Outages Into Strategic Advantages by Laura Chu

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IT outages are a growing concern for financial entities, threatening both operational resilience and regulatory compliance. By addressing common challenges and adopting forward-thinking strategies, organizations can turn outages into stepping stones for achieving operational excellence.

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Business Power Outage Emergency Response Planning in 7 Easy Steps

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Power outages can be devastating, but they don’t have to slow you down. Keep your business moving with a power outage emergency response plan.

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Turning Setbacks into Strengths: How Spring Branch ISD Built Resilience with Pure Storage and Veeam

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Turning Setbacks into Strengths: How Spring Branch ISD Built Resilience with Pure Storage and Veeam by Pure Storage Blog Summary Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston experienced an unplanned outage. Theres nothing fun about dealing with an unplanned outage.

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Supporting enterprises during IT outages: The role of Everbridge

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However, IT outages, as the one caused by a Crowdstrike update on July 19 th 2024, are inevitable and can disrupt business operations, leading to significant financial losses and reputational damage. Accelerated incident response and resolution for IT disruption One of the most critical aspects of managing IT outages is the speed of response.

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Are you Prepared for Your Next Major Outage? by Mark Philp

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And ultimately, it’s not a matter of if you will have an outage, but of when. Before an outage… 1. During an outage… 3. Reduce alert noise so there are fewer interruptions during incident response, leading to faster resolution. After an outage… 8.

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How Operational Resilience Can Help Build and Maintain Trust by Jeffrey Hausman

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A single service outage or poor customer experience can severely damage both revenue and brand reputation. Our interconnected nature magnifies issues The global IT outage of July 19 last year exemplifies how the interconnected nature of modern enterprises can amplify the impact of technical failures.