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An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage

Plan B Consulting

If air flights only ran from 9-5, then airlines could do some evening work to catch up. There is very little spare capacity in the system to accommodate delayed passengers and cancelled flights, so the effects take days to sort out. In this case, the airlines have no choice but to use NATS, so they can legitimately blame them.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. When you run your operations at near capacity, the disruption has a long tail of knock-on effects.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. When you run your operations at near capacity, the disruption has a long tail of knock-on effects.

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How to Achieve IT Agility: It’s All About Architecture

Pure Storage

We built this architecture into all our products so that our customers could scale performance and capacity to meet the demands of modern workloads. This approach is markedly different from legacy storage vendors that require time- and resource-consuming “forklift” storage upgrades and data migrations that can take months to plan and execute.

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10 Times Agile Data Delivered Breakthroughs

Pure Storage

These services are also used by airlines, insurance companies, agricultural agencies, transportation services, freight companies, and event organizers. Airlines also use it to predict wind patterns and map the most fuel-efficient routes for their aircraft.

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Deal or No Deal

Plan B Consulting

Also, if your organisation is going to use specialist export companies at the same time everyone else in the market is trying to do so, there may not be the capacity to accommodate all the different organisations wanting to use their services.

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Deal or No Deal

Plan B Consulting

Also, if your organisation is going to use specialist export companies at the same time everyone else in the market is trying to do so, there may not be the capacity to accommodate all the different organisations wanting to use their services.