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DRI Drive
JANUARY 18, 2022
Prediction 7: An extended outage of […]. The post 2022 Predictions: How Much Damage Could an IT Outage Do? Conference News Presentations DRI2022 IT outage Trends and Predictions
DRI Drive
OCTOBER 14, 2021
4, Facebook suffered one of its longest outages of nearly six hours, which was long enough to majorly disrupt online retail and global communications networks and create panic and confusion among users. The post The Great Facebook Outage of 2021: 4 Key Lessons appeared first on DRI Drive.
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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.
Recovery Diva
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Nursing home deaths rose 25 percent after Hurricane Irma, study finds In an article in JAMA Health Forum, a national team of researchers associates power outages in nursing homes with a 25 percent increase in deaths
Disaster Zone
JULY 10, 2022
This time it was a software issue
DRI Drive
JUNE 20, 2022
On June 7, an outage in northwestern British Columbia left residents without internet, landline or cellular service […]. News beavers British Columbia ospreys Power Grid power outage wildlife
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.
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.
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.
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.
Behavior Group
JULY 26, 2019
The post Facebook, Instagram & WhatApp Outage Reveals AI Image Tags appeared first on Behaviour Portugal. Billions of users were frustrated by not being able to see their images on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp this week due to glitches in Facebook’s platform, which was triggered by “routine maintenance.”. 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.
Plan B Consulting
OCTOBER 27, 2013
Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. NHS Glasgow computer outage appeared first on PlanB Consulting.
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. The post The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View appeared first on PlanB Consulting.
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?
VOX Veritas
DECEMBER 11, 2017
What you don’t know about the cloud can hurt you. Did you know that organizations experience 22 minutes of downtime/month on average in the cloud? ( you can read more about that here – The new truth in cloud ) Read more
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.
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.
Talkingpoint
MARCH 2, 2021
A single data breach, ransomware infection, equipment failure, or an unexpected power outage could quickly become a catastrophic event, especially when it […]. Data is piling up in organizations, challenging their IT staff’s ability to keep pace with security and backups.
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.
Virtual Corporation
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
If your enterprise has a disaster recovery plan, you’re on the right track, but these plans don’t always go into the details of how your business will operate and regain access to your data during an outage.
Kings Bridge 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.
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. Melted Fiber-optic Cable. It is Mid-November. After a week of above-average temperatures and some heavy rain.
Behavior Group
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
83% of companies would suffer business damage during the first 24 hours of an outage and thereafter, which comes as no surprise with recent surges in ransomware and other attacks wreaking havoc across IT infrastructures, a Dimensional Research survey reveals.
Business Continuity Today
APRIL 19, 2022
When we think of Business Continuity Planning, we ought to have a plan for a power outage; however, have you ever thought about a power shortage? As we see, the price of fuel impacts the supply chain. Can the drought in the American Southwest impact the electrical grid?
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. “O
The Business Continuity Podcast
APRIL 10, 2018
We discuss her experience of dealing with power outages around the world and how prior experience in the hospitality industry has helped her as a continuity professional. Katherine Corbishley is Business Continuity Supervisor at a large, global corporate law firm.
Continuity Insights
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Because modern businesses depend on data, so that any unplanned IT outage can have a detrimental effect on profitability, productivity, sales, and customer experiences (CX). Using a disaster recovery as a service is a very clever thing to do today. Therefore, it is crucial that businesses choose a dependable method to reduce data loss and. Source. Crisis Communication Cyber Disaster Recovery Enterprise Risk Management
Business Continuity Today
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Power outages mean pumps can’t process and treat drinking water or sewage, and heavy stormwater flows can damage water mains. Power outages mean pumps can’t process and treat drinking water or sewage, and heavy stormwater flows can damage water mains.
Disaster Safety
DECEMBER 23, 2021
In case of a power outage, follow these guidelines when using a generator: Using a generator poses certain risks that must be addressed for safe operation, including fire, damage to electrical equipment, and even injury or death to those operating the generator or inside the home.
AWS Disaster Recovery
MAY 23, 2022
Using multiple Regions ensures resiliency in the most serious, widespread outages. The Amazon EKS control plane and data plane will be created on demand in the secondary Region during an outage via Infrastructure-as-a-Code (IaaC) such as AWS CloudFormation , Terraform, etc.
Zerto
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Aside from data backup and replication considerations, IT organizations and teams also need to design robust disaster recovery (DR) plans and test these DR plans frequently to ensure quick and effective recovery from planned and unplanned outage events when they occur.
Disaster Recovery Journal
JANUARY 14, 2020
While an emergency can be many things – a winter storm , natural disaster, power outage, or man-made incident – streamlining and centralizing communications can play a major role in improving the outcome of an event. AUSTIN, Texas â??Â
Kings Bridge BCP
AUGUST 14, 2022
You should be able to use the same BCP to respond to a fire, a train derailment, a power outage, or an active threat. Is my plan enough? As Business Continuity professionals, we see a lot of plans.
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.
Kings Bridge BCP
DECEMBER 29, 2021
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. In a word: Yes. Really, you don’t have a choice but to afford Business Continuity Planning.
OffsiteDataSync
MAY 18, 2022
Then, regardless of how much SaaS has benefited your company, it’ll only be talk when the data you thought was backed up isn’t there or when productivity grinds to a halt because an outage is keeping users from the resources they need to get their job done.
Zerto
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage. Even the largest public clouds experience outages as seen in recent news events.
Continuity Insights
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
It took the Meta group (Facebook, Instagram, et al) going offline for hours (an outage blamed on networking issues) for the world to realize how much it relies on Social Media and the importance of operational continuity. The pain of ransomware. In this Forbes Technology Council post, Ziv Kedem, co-founder and VP/GM of Zerto, discusses. Source. Cyber Disaster Recovery
Castellan
MARCH 16, 2022
The top 10 potential disruptions shared in that report included: Cyber-attacks Power outages Data breaches Network/communication outages Pandemic/diseases Computer viruses Brand/social media damage Hurricanes Fires (not natural) Earthquakes.
Solutions Review
JULY 26, 2022
Step 6: Test the Plan – Use scheduled power outages or major upgrades as a chance to test the plan. RTO is the maximum tolerable length of time of an outage. RPO is the amount of data that you can afford to lose in the event of an outage.
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