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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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Navigating Data Resilience with Zerto: Insights from the Global CrowdStrike Outage

Zerto

In an era where data is the lifeblood of organizations, ensuring its resilience against unexpected outages is paramount. The recent CrowdStrike outage that impacted millions of Microsoft Windows devices worldwide has highlighted vulnerabilities within many companies’ disaster recovery frameworks.

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Supporting enterprises during IT outages: The role of Everbridge

everbridge

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

PagerDuty

And ultimately, it’s not a matter of if you will have an outage, but of when. Before an outage… 1. Find and implement specific recommendations, such as adding automation or enhancing team efficiencies, to boost operational resiliency. During an outage… 3. After an outage… 8. Why listen to PagerDuty?

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