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The Great Facebook Outage of 2021: 4 Key Lessons

DRI Drive

4, Facebook suffered one of its longest outages of nearly six hours, which was long enough to majorly disrupt online retail and global communications networks and create panic and confusion among users. What can resilience professionals learn from the social network’s surprise crash?

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2022 Predictions: How Much Damage Could an IT Outage Do?

DRI Drive

The DRI International Future Vision Committee has released its 7th Annual Predictions Report, looking ahead to 2022 and its impact on the resilience community. Prediction 7: An extended outage of […]. The post 2022 Predictions: How Much Damage Could an IT Outage Do? appeared first on DRI Drive.

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

DRI Drive

While the big resilience concerns focus on natural disasters, cybersecurity and supply chain woes, a pair of recent attacks on the power grid are a reminder to never forget how much damage a single small animal can do. The post In the Battle Between Wildlife and Power Grids, Never Bet Against the Beaver appeared first on DRI Drive.

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6 Customer-proven Best Practices for Cyber-resilient Backup and Recovery

Pure Storage

6 Customer-proven Best Practices for Cyber-resilient Backup and Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Summary From the 3-2-1-1-0 framework to indelible data to faster threat detection, cyber resilience best practices can help organizations safeguard their operations and recover quickly and confidently when the worst happens.

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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. This outage teaches us otherwise.

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Heathrow Power Outage: Unseen Lessons

Plan B Consulting

In todays bulletin, Charlie discusses Heathrow Airports recent power outage and gives advice on how we can learn from the event. We all know organisations aresusceptible to power outages, and we build in resilience but there is always the chance that our resilience measures fail andthe power goes down.

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

Pure Storage

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.