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The Great Facebook Outage of 2021: 4 Key Lessons

DRI Drive

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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Business Continuity Planning for the Retail Industry

everbridge

Business Continuity in the Retail Industry. Enduring the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a unique opportunity for businesses in the retail industry to reshape how they operate. A BCP is vital for the retail sector for several reasons. Top Threats to Business Continuity in Retail. Utility outages. Cyberattacks.

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How to Create a Network Disaster Recovery Plan

Pure Storage

Prolonged outages can lead to direct revenue loss, contractual penalties, and lost opportunities, all of which can be avoided or minimized with an effective recovery plan. The company can no longer process orders for retailers, either. Faced with a crippling cyberattack, the company’s website is down.

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Like a Rubik’s cube: The journey to continuity and resilience in the financial services industry

Fusion Risk Management

He worried that that approach wouldn’t work with some customers, vendors, and regulators and could result in potential risks like outages, losing customers for good, and regulatory fines. For example, what if some customers couldn’t perform testing or other basic functions as a result?

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The Ocado fire – when disaster recovery becomes real

IT Governance BC

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*. Business continuity management.

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5 Ways Data Reveals Next-level Insights

Pure Storage

Next-level intelligence gleaned from the analysis of unstructured data is driving some incredible breakthroughs across industries—from retail and healthcare to logistics and entertainment. Retail (and other) organizations are constantly striving to offer up tailored experiences that build customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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PagerDuty at re:Invent 2022 Launches Automated Diagnostics for AWS that Enables Organizations to Resolve Incidents Faster So They Can Innovate More by Inga Weizman

PagerDuty

A major retailer can lose upwards of $200K per minute in revenue every minute the site is down. For serious outages this needlessly extends the length of time it takes to resolve an incident, takes engineers away from high-value work, and increases the overall cost of an outage. Incidents can get expensive — really expensive.