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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge. The East Coast Amazon data centre outage a couple of months ago should have taught us that however many backup systems an organisation has, their IT can still fail.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge. The East Coast Amazon data centre outage a couple of months ago should have taught us that however many backup systems an organisation has, their IT can still fail.

Outage 52
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Relational vs. Non-relational Databases

Pure Storage

This data can be easily filtered, searched, manipulated, and cross-referenced with other relational databases on flight booking websites, airport arrival monitors, customer service centers, and by the FAA. Sharding, which improves scalability and load balancing. So, which is right for your data, workload, or application?