Tuesday’s events became yet another recent demonstration of how much the modern internet depends on just a few key infrastructure providers to function. Cloudflare, a company handling an estimated one-fifth of global web traffic, struggled with a major outage that…
Monday’s paralysis that laid global giants – from Zoom, to Slack, to Fortnite – was like a blow to the IT industry. In the age of the ‘decentralised’, infinitely scalable cloud, how is it possible for a problem in a…
A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure outage is underway, disrupting dozens of key online services around the world. The epicentre of the problems is in the US-EAST-1 region (Virginia, USA), one of the most important nodes of the global…
A fire at a key government data centre in Daejeon has partially paralysed digital public services in South Korea, one of the world’s most computerised countries. The incident highlighted fundamental gaps in the government’s business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.…
Every informed IT manager and director knows their number. It’s the cost per minute of downtime, a painful indicator that translates lost time into lost revenue. However, focusing on this one metric is like looking at the tip of the…