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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. The post The Great Facebook Outage of 2021: 4 Key Lessons appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Business Continuity Planning for the Retail Industry

everbridge

Business Continuity in the Retail Industry. Enduring the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a unique opportunity for businesses in the retail industry to reshape how they operate. A BCP is vital for the retail sector for several reasons. Top Threats to Business Continuity in Retail. Utility outages. Cyberattacks.

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Modernize Your NOC: A 2025 Guide to Reducing IT Costs and Protecting Profits by Constant Fischer

PagerDuty

Whether youre in finance services, technology, retail, or manufacturing, the message is clear: inefficiency is expensive, and its time to stop paying the price. Whether its a website outage during a major sale or a factory shutdown due to a cyberattack, the costs of downtime go far beyond lost revenue.

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The Make-Or-Break Factor Failing Business Owners Often Miss

LAN Infotech

Even a one-hour outage can lead to significant revenue loss and damage to the companys reputation. For example, take a retail business stuck with legacy POS systems that fails to integrate online and in-store sales data. System outages or slow response times can lead to dissatisfaction, negative reviews and loss of business.

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The Outrage or Lack Thereof: Lessons Learned from the CrowdStrike Outage

Fusion Risk Management

It’s been interesting to see the accepting attitude of customers that a disruption as large scale as the CrowdStrike outage would occur; ire and blame seems to have only been aimed at individual firms when those organisations have failed to revert to manual or alternative processes and recover within similar time frames to their peers.

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Revolutionizing Remote-Location Operations With PagerDuty Automation by Joseph Mandros

PagerDuty

Consistency is key in today’s ultra-competitive retail environment. Key technological components of running a successful retail location include managing web orders, integrating with third-party delivery services, handling order management, and supporting self-service checkout, among others.

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The Ocado fire – when disaster recovery becomes real

IT Governance BC

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*. Business continuity management.