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Outages: understanding the human factor

Outages: understanding the human factor

Analyzing human error — with a view to preventing it — has…
Is concern over cloud and third-party outages increasing?

Is concern over cloud and third-party outages increasing?

As a result of some high-profile outages and the growing interest…
Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage

Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage

The bigger the outage, the greater the need for explanations and, most importantly, for taking steps to avoid a repeat.

Fastly outage underscores slow creep of digital services risk

A recent outage at content delivery network Fastly took down…
Service Outages2020

Pandemic is causing some outages and slowdowns

To date, media coverage of the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdowns…
2020

Are IT Infrastructure Outages Getting Longer?

One of the findings of Uptime Institute’s recently published…
IT Outages in the Financial Community

Outage Reporting in Financial Services

In the movie “Mary Poppins,” Mr. Banks sings that a British…