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Delta's Ongoing CrowdStrike Issue Highlights Fragile Technology

SecureWorld News

But when you see what Delta Airlines is *still* doing to passengers some five days after this one piece of bad code ate the internet, you can't blame CrowdStrike any longer. Delta's backup plan was to fail. So, the backup plan fails. Then the subsequent tsunami knocked out backup generators. It was a event cascade.

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Fountainhead: The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail

Fountainhead

I browse the web: Site tracking; clickstream storage; site analytics; Email storage, including replication on devices as well as replication in geographical-mirrored data centers. Browse an online store: All of the above, plus clickstream storage and analysis. At my home: electricity usage via smart metering data collection.

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Delta’s continuing CrowdStrike issue reveals that fragile tech, and no Plan B, is a recipe for disaster

GeekWire

A monitor shows a Windows machine in recovery mode next to the Microsoft employee check-in at the Delta Airlines counter at Sea-Tac Airport on Friday morning, following last week’s CrowdStrike outage. Delta’s backup plan was to fail. So, the backup plan fails. There were backup batteries (plan C, if you will!)

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What Is Disaster Recovery as a Service?

SecureWorld News

The backup functionalities of these data protection solutions allow providers to also offer DRaaS to their customers. Modern DRaaS providers can allow clients to flexibly adjust the amount of resources they require such as RAM, CPU, storage space, data security, and network bandwidth, among other things.

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LK-99: What if we have room temperature superconductors

Dataconomy

Energy storage and batteries Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems would enable efficient and rapid energy storage and retrieval, addressing the intermittency issues of renewable energy sources.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Understanding SSL Certificates

Sean Daniel

If I were to present my Microsoft Identification, they would probably look at me sideways and ask for another ID, because the airlines don’t trust the Microsoft employee issuing authority. Online Backup. (5). Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. Online Backup. Cloud Computing. (10).

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Universal Hydrogen reportedly runs out of runway, one year after starting flight tests

GeekWire

The engine on the left side was left unconverted to serve as a backup. In February, the company announced a successful on-the-ground test of its hydrogen storage module and fuel-cell powertrain — and said it planned to have the system used in passenger airplanes by 2026.

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