Wednesday's flight chaos should focus attention on existing criticism of the system

Negligent attitudes towards testing from CEOs leave manufacturers at risk of costly downtime

In South Korea, a data center fire led to government intervention. In France, just silence

As the climate warms, and facilities attempt to minimize cooling for efficiency reasons, we could see a trend for cooling systems failures

Geomagnetic storms can cause disruption and damage, yet few assess the risk or implement protections

Why we need to rethink our approach

And can you trust what your business partners say?

Hurricane season is upon us, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts an unusually busy one in 2022

How to guard your enterprise against cloud outages

We may never know what happened on March 10 2021, when SBG2 went up in flames

The Ukraine conflict and associated political and economic fallout will have short- and long-term effects on the infrastructure industry

Secrecy is no surprise in this industry

More data center managers would consider moving mission-critical workloads to a public cloud provider if visibility of operational resiliency improved

How to prepare for the unthinkable

The RPKI model works at its best when as many players as possible are involved

Consider the costs - of both outages, and mitigation

Facebook’s hours long outage on October 4th snarled completely unrelated applications globally, underscoring the criticality — and fragility — of publicly shared digital infrastructure

De-risk your disaster recovery to deal with weather and cyberattacks

Consolidation is producing too many single points of failure

You want to avoid fires. You also want to avoid pressing the panic button

We rely on CDNs - you need to be aware of this and plan what to do if they fail you

A lot of the stuff people want to do at the Edge is already being done

Applications are easier to build, but their complexity is increasing. A Google outage can take down entire networks

With edge data centers, operators could end up running thousands of sites, and most won't be staffed full-time. Who will be making sure that the UPS remains fully functional?

Dealing with the actual destruction is just the first step...

After the disastrous fire at OVHcloud in Strasbourg, we need information on the risk

OVHcloud was known as a bold innovator. When the cause of the SBG2 fire in Strasbourg is finally revealed, this may be a factor

Just because it's unlikely doesn't mean it won't happen