BCM METRICS

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Extreme weather is making power outages more frequent, and work from home has not made the issue go away. government has concluded that climate change and extreme weather are raising the incidence of power outages. The post Powering On: How to Be Ready for a Power Outage appeared first on BCMMETRICS. Meanwhile, […].

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. The post An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 29, 2024

When it comes to major technological disruptions, cloud service outages, and cybersecurity threats, businesses must be proactive and prepared. As outages become more and more subject to regulatory compliance, and resilience becomes a matter of strategic assurance, a clear and focussed roadmap to getting better is never more valuable.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MARCH 27, 2023

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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Business Continuity Today

MARCH 1, 2022

The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. Is Your organization ready? Is Your organization ready?

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Business Continuity Today

MARCH 1, 2022

The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. The rising rate of power outages, the strain on the system, and the closing of power plants across the US are just some of the symptoms. Is Your organization ready? Is Your organization ready?

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 6, 2017

Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. In the outage described above, the IT organization response was delayed by almost two hours and was initially sluggish. Machines do not have hubris.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. The Auckland power outage took place in the central district from 19th February to 27th March, 1998.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. The Auckland power outage took place in the central district from 19th February to 27th March, 1998.

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Continuity Insights

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Source.

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Disaster Zone

JULY 10, 2022

This time it was a software issue.

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Recovery Diva

MAY 24, 2023

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. The Auckland power outage took place in the central district from 19th February to 27th March, 1998.

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Disaster Zone

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Compare the states.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

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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Behavior Group

JULY 26, 2019

The post Facebook, Instagram & WhatApp Outage Reveals AI Image Tags appeared first on Behaviour Portugal. Image Tags Instead of pictures and videos, users were shown grey boxes with text describing what was in the image. This is believed… Continue reading.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

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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VOX Veritas

MARCH 15, 2018

Learn about the anatomy of a cloud outage and best practices to help your business ensure maximum uptime against all odds. What really happens when the cloud goes down and how do you protect your critical business applications in such an event?

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Recovery Diva

APRIL 12, 2023

A coalition of advocacy groups is suing the federal government’s disaster response agency, claiming it is making Puerto Rico less resilient to storms and more vulnerable to power outages by rebuilding the island’s old, unreliable power grid without properly assessing the environmental impacts or considering residents’ desire for renewable energy.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources We business continuity professionals spend a lot of time telling our colleagues and clients about the negative impacts an organization can experience if it gives short shrift to the need to become resilient and plan for outages.

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Airlines Outage Crisis Management Transportation 52

Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Power outages in February 2021 were largely a failure of the natural gas system, a reality that state officials don’t acknowledge, blaming wind energy instead. From Inside Climate News: One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation.

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Unitrends

MARCH 6, 2023

Disruptions from natural disasters, equipment failures, power outages, cyberattacks and other incidents have escalated in frequency and severity in recent years, and organizations continue to bear the brunt of it. The 2022 Outage Analysis Report by Uptime Institute underlines this growing menace.

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Citrix

JULY 10, 2023

The corporate network can be a major factor, as an outage can disrupt the environment and impact users. As an IT administrator, it can be challenging to keep your environments stable and sustainable.

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization. Have alternatives in the event of utility outages All businesses and organizations are reliant on utilities.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where organizations of all industries increasingly rely on digital innovation and experiences to create differentiation in the market, it has never been more critical to ensure the integrity of their operations are safeguarded against unforeseen outages and incidents.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A company that has suffered an outage or disruption for any reason, and which is in the process of recovering its systems and operations, is at a heightened level of vulnerability to every type of event. Outages can also impact remote workers, so there will likely be recovery measures pertaining to those workers. Risk assessment.

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Acronis

MAY 19, 2022

In the event of a sudden and unexpected disruption, from a power outage or natural disaster to equipment failure or system crash, the consequences can be catastrophic. This underlines the compelling case for MSPs to offer clients a way to maintain business continuity if the worst should happen.

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PagerDuty

JUNE 29, 2022

With little to no data to understand how and when power outages occur, it has become increasingly challenging for bioengineers to manage. . Without data showing exactly how long and costly these outages are, it’s difficult for these hospitals to justify additional funds. Nexleaf Analytics is working to solve this challenge.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where organizations of all industries increasingly rely on digital innovation and experiences to create differentiation in the market, it has never been more critical to ensure the integrity of their operations are safeguarded against unforeseen outages and incidents.

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Disaster Preparedness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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Citrix

JULY 10, 2023

The corporate network can be a major factor, as an outage can disrupt the environment and impact users. As an IT administrator, it can be challenging to keep your environments stable and sustainable.

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Unitrends

MAY 15, 2023

Ransomware, hurricanes, floods, hardware failure, file corruption, human error and dozens of other disasters can bring business productivity to a standstill if your organization is not equipped to handle an outage situation.

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KingsBridge BCP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Afford a Business Continuity Plan We recently worked with a small development company that experiences frequent power outages. We calculated how much direct salary money they were losing with the power outages. This company now has generators and sound business continuity plan to keep them in business when power outages occur.

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Online Computers

MARCH 30, 2022

Network outages. In a network outage, the server can't communicate with other computers, causing work to grind to a halt. The difficult thing about network outages is that they can be caused by anything from router failures to cable cuts to internet service provider problems. Third-party or cloud vendor outages.

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BCM METRICS

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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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KingsBridge BCP

AUGUST 30, 2022

It usually takes a large-scale outage to convince a team to get their core processes written down. An outage on the scale of a few hours could have been measured in minutes if documentation existed. “We don’t need to write it down, we all know how to do it.” Or “We don’t have the time, do you see how understaffed we are?!”

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