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

PagerDuty

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. Telecommunications dropped to 17% of normal capacity. This outage teaches us otherwise.

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Decrease Recovery Time for Microsoft SQL Server Disasters with Pure Cloud Block Store in Microsoft Azure

Pure Storage

The capacity listed for each model is effective capacity with a 4:1 data reduction rate. . Higher availability: Synchronous replication can be implemented between two Pure Cloud Block Store instances to ensure that, in the event of an availability zone outage, the storage remains accessible to SQL Server. .

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge. The East Coast Amazon data centre outage a couple of months ago should have taught us that however many backup systems an organisation has, their IT can still fail.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge. The East Coast Amazon data centre outage a couple of months ago should have taught us that however many backup systems an organisation has, their IT can still fail.

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

Threats against Critical Infrastructure Attackers often target essential servicessuch as power grids, water supplies, or transportation systemsthreatening severe disruption unless paid. Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. fuel pipeline, causing widespread disruptions.

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Non-disruptive DR Drills for Oracle Databases Using Pure Storage ActiveDR?—?Part 1 of 4

Pure Storage

This includes FlashArray//C ™ for capacity-optimized workloads, FlashArray//X ™ for performance-optimized workloads, and the big boy FlashArray//XL ™ for the most demanding low latency, large-scale consolidation workloads. ActiveDR is simple to set up and easy to manage. I already have my production database “ACTDRDBS” configured.

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The Ukraine Invasion: What Are the Impacts on Supply Chain Dynamics?

Fusion Risk Management

Logistics Route and Capacity Constraints : Supply chain transportation and freight is already being impacted across the globe. In addition, global transporters UPS and FedEx have discontinued all shipments to both Russia and Ukraine and will consider further restrictions if the conflict expands to other countries directly.