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What Is Disaster Recovery as a Service?

SecureWorld News

The latest CrowdStrike outage highlighted the need for a disaster recovery plan that can help organizations resume critical IT operations in case of emergencies. What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)? The vendor also must ensure regular replica updates according to the client's recovery point objectives.

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Lessons Learned From The Recent British Airways Outage

Forrester IT

It might take the airline a few quarters to recover fully. BA execs will get to the root-cause analysis soon, but the event (and historical failures at airlines in general) provides a bonanza of lessons for execs everywhere who want to better equip their organizations to handle such exigencies. Disaster recovery.

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CrowdStrike outage hits 8.5M Windows devices; Microsoft collaborates with Amazon and Google

GeekWire

A Delta Airlines display connected to a Windows machine impacted by the CrowdStrike update at Sea-Tac Airport. Airlines and others were continuing to recover from the outage Saturday morning. United Airlines, for example, said customers may continue to experience delays and disruptions as it brings systems back online.

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Delta Air Lines and CrowdStrike Clash Over Costly IT Outage

SecureWorld News

The airline has retained high-profile litigator David Boies to pursue potential damages. CrowdStrike also questions why Delta's competitors were able to restore their operations more quickly, implying that Delta's own IT infrastructure and disaster recovery procedures may have contributed to the extended outage.

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Suit-Counter Suit: Delta, CrowdStrike in Legal Clash Over July Outage

SecureWorld News

Delta Air Lines recently filed a lawsuit against cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, alleging that its software update caused a widespread disruption to the airline's operations, leading to thousands of flight cancellations and significant financial losses.

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Outages at Delta and Southwest Airlines hold valuable management lessons

ComputerWorld IT Management

Both airlines’ outages were massive, requiring days to fully recover. Because airlines are highly dependent on IT, both companies undoubtedly had a disaster recovery plan (DRP) and a business continuity plan (BCP.) What can your company learn from their unfortunate experiences?

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

United Airlines took to the cloud to modernize its Revenue Management system to reduce costs, but also to land on a platform that didn’t limit its ability to apply modern revenue management processes. United’s Revenue Management Modernization Takes Flight. Next stop: Migrating a complex forecasting module planned for later in 2022.

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