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Disaster Response and Equity: Reflecting on the Racial Disparities in Texas Power Outages

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

This February marked two years since Texans were hit with widespread power outages during the deep freeze of 2021. The state’s energy supply chain was unable to withstand the sustained low temperatures, as generation resources were strained due to cold weather tripping units, natural gas supply curtailments, and wind power generation outages.

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AWS Outage Aftermath: No Post-Incident Response 30 Days Later

Continuity Insights

Last month, AWS customers experienced an outage if they used the firm’s site-to-site VPN and Internet Connectivity through its US-East-2 availability zone. The outage lasted for exactly 40 minutes from 12:26 p.m. to 1:06 p.m. During that span, AWS customers who depended on that availability zone faced a myriad of issues.

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

BCM METRICS

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside […]. Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes.

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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.

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Scenario of the Month: An Ice-Storm Wrecks Havoc

Disaster Preparedness

A fire has broken out downtown at an underground sub-station causing both a power outage and melting of fiber-optic cables impacting the internet and 911 calls. The Mayor has declared a local State-of-Emergency and has asked everyone to stay home and off the roads for safety and clean-up. What do you do?

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

MHA Consulting

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. With the external internet down across the region, the client was unable to use their bank’s ACH system to make electronic payments. Getting manually logged data into the system when the outage is over.

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