article thumbnail

5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing Storage as-a-Service

Pure Storage

Will That Cause an Outage? A modern cloud-like storage service should never require “planned downtime” or require outage windows to perform routine software, hardware upgrades and maintenance. Many vendors will offer “best effort” or “commercially reasonable” SLOs, but real SLAs need commitments and penalties for not meeting them.

Capacity 105
article thumbnail

5 Real-life business continuity planning cases you need to know

Online Computers

The attack also caused the COVID-19 vaccine portal to go offline and induced IT outages at five major hospitals, including Children’s Health Ireland. The 2017 hurricane that nearly drowned a Texas marketing agency. The scale of the attack was so great that not even the HSE’s cybersecurity protocols could fully prevent it.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Recent heavy rainfall in Rhode Island, Georgia, and Indiana caused deadly flash floods and thousands of power outages. According to the National Hurricane Center, four systems are currently forming in the Atlantic: Hurricane Earl, expected to impact Bermuda in the coming days, Hurricane Danielle, and two tropical waves.

Hazard 77
article thumbnail

When the Ship Goes Down, You Need a Lifeboat

Swan Island Network

November 8, 2017. You’ve undoubtedly read about or experienced the Delta outage this week; you might be sitting in an airport reading this right now! When the Ship Goes Down, You Need a Lifeboat. Pete O'Dell. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email.

Outage 52
article thumbnail

BUSINESSES ARE LIKE DOMINOS. DEVELOP YOUR BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN BEFORE THEY START TO FALL.

CCEM Strategies

Map the simple hazards first, such as power outage or your website going down for greater than 24 hours. Identify the Impacts Establish how your business might be affected by the identified hazards. How would the incident affect your personnel, the facility and/or the technology? Don’t forget data!

article thumbnail

Dynamic Risks: Working Definitions and Implications for Risk Management Teams

On Solve

But nearly a full day after the tornado, power outages and gas leaks were causing new evacuations , and the staff shortage continued into the following week.”. For example, security leaders will be familiar with ASIS, whose 2017 ORM Standard states “Organizations typically operate in inherently dynamic risk environments [ 1 ].”

article thumbnail

Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

Again, the devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean in 2017 can be seen as part of this change. We have seen outages of some of the large data centres, such as Amazon or Microsoft 365, which affected large numbers of organisations worldwide. My Hive internet heating system was down last week due to an outage at a data centre.