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In the Battle Between Wildlife and Power Grids, Never Bet Against the Beaver

DRI Drive

On June 7, an outage in northwestern British Columbia left residents without internet, landline or cellular service […]. The post In the Battle Between Wildlife and Power Grids, Never Bet Against the Beaver appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Scenario of the Month: An Ice-Storm Wrecks Havoc

Disaster Preparedness

A fire has broken out downtown at an underground sub-station causing both a power outage and melting of fiber-optic cables impacting the internet and 911 calls. The Mayor has declared a local State-of-Emergency and has asked everyone to stay home and off the roads for safety and clean-up. What do you do?

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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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Myth vs. Reality: Lessons in Reliability from the July 19 Outage by Paula Thrasher

PagerDuty

There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”). His team had just started implementing AIOps when the outage hit.

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Myth vs. Reality: Lessons in Reliability from the July 19 Outage by Paula Thrasher

PagerDuty

There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”). His team had just started implementing AIOps when the outage hit.

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Disaster Response and Equity: Reflecting on the Racial Disparities in Texas Power Outages

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

This February marked two years since Texans were hit with widespread power outages during the deep freeze of 2021. The state’s energy supply chain was unable to withstand the sustained low temperatures, as generation resources were strained due to cold weather tripping units, natural gas supply curtailments, and wind power generation outages.

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