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

Power problems are no longer the top cause of outages

As many of us continue to work remotely, outages have become more frequent and more acute

Although the system is resilient, there have been some alarming staff shortages

The big dangers - and how to manage them

As Internet traffic has increased and databases have become more outdated, the importance of routing validation has increased

The US Government Accountability Office recently issued a report in which it documented 34 IT outages from 2015 through 2017 that affected 11 of the 12 selected domestic US airlines included in the report

There are a range of varying claims to BGP visibility or monitoring out there, terms which are themselves quite vague

Explaining Cloudflare's major outage

Three approaches to determine the impact of changing a script

When data is unavailable, lost or unprotected, there’s a huge price to pay