[News] Mass IT Outage

[Kinky Gerbil]

Anyone know if the big supermarkets in the UK are affected ?

Anyone know if the big supermarkets in the UK are affected ?

Are you planning to shoplift or not ?

 

[US Seagull]

Yeah realistically whether we were all in the office today or not would make no difference. It'd just be a room full of mildly panicking people rather than those people mildly panicking in their home office.

The argument they'll make is that since fixing this requires hands on the keyboard, having all those keyboards spread across random locations all over the city / country / world is a bit of an issue. Better to require all the keyboards (and the associated meatbags) crammed into the same office, just in case this happens again.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Shame the yanks panicked and liquidated Sungard world wide

we were the world leaders in DR/BC and this would have been right up our alley

and as we were liquidated only government redundancy not enhanced for people who had been there 22 years


f*** em

 

[Springal]

Shame the yanks panicked and liquidated Sungard world wide

we were the world leaders in DR/BC and this would have been right up our alley

and as we were liquidated only government redundancy not enhanced for people who had been there 22 years


f*** em

How ?

 

[raymondo]

This was always 'when' not 'if'.
Most servers these days are VM images so scaremongering that 10,000s of servers need a keyboard plugged in is typical media hyperbole, the VM hosts maybe. What will be taking the time is getting root access where required and testing roll back. Lots of big companies will be learning that hardly anyone really knows their major DR event processes.

Yes. A reminder to many companies that they should actually rehearse their DR processes occasionally. This one may be fixed 'relatively' quickly though.

 

[beorhthelm]

from US, in interview with Crowdstrike CEO he was asked why all the systems dont have backups. like thats his problem too.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Yes. A reminder to many companies that they should actually rehearse their DR processes occasionally. This one may be fixed 'relatively' quickly though.

I have been asked quite a few times to come out of retirement to help companies write dr/bc plans and review their strategies.

30+ years of experience building IBM systems from As400 to RS6000 and series recoveries and rebuilding

On another tack we used redspam not crowdstrike as the latter was known to not test their releases, like Microsoft and Apple who release updates knowing they have bugs and when customers found them they reported them and out came revisions.

I am glad o am out of this

Yes. A reminder to many companies that they should actually rehearse their DR processes occasionally. This one may be fixed 'relatively' quickly though.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Are we blaming Russia or China?

 

[US Seagull]

from US, in interview with Crowdstrike CEO he was asked why all the systems dont have backups. like thats his problem too.

I saw that. Looks a bit shell shocked. Don't envy his job today.

 

[ewe2]

Paying by cash…..the return!

 

[vegster]

Are you planning to shoplift or not ?

I'm holding £35 in cash so will have to limit my purchases, I'd never shoplift...the guilt !

 

[vegster]

I have been asked quite a few times to come out of retirement to help companies write dr/bc plans and review their strategies.

30+ years of experience building IBM systems from As400 to RS6000 and series recoveries and rebuilding

On another tack we used redspam not crowdstrike as the latter was known to not test their releases, like Microsoft and Apple who release updates knowing they have bugs and when customers found them they reported them and out came revisions.

I am glad o am out of this

I'm quite chuffed here, I managed to recognise several words in that post!

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Yes. A reminder to many companies that they should actually rehearse their DR processes occasionally. This one may be fixed 'relatively' quickly though.

This, totally agree. WTF is DR?

 

[chickens]

Imagine being the person who signed that one off for release. Knowing that you effectively shut down large chunks of the Western world, shutting down airports, access to healthcare, financial services.

Wow.

 

[zefarelly]

Paying by cash…..the return!

I like to keep a monkey in Bobbys in me sky rocket, just in case.

 

[Change at Barnham]

On my way to Paris and have breezed through the easyJet check-in at Gatwick and also security.
We’re just boarding our plane, everything is as smooth as always.
Unless you are reading the news you would be totally unaware of any problems.

 

[dwayne]

I have been asked quite a few times to come out of retirement to help companies write dr/bc plans and review their strategies.

30+ years of experience building IBM systems from As400 to RS6000 and series recoveries and rebuilding

On another tack we used redspam not crowdstrike as the latter was known to not test their releases, like Microsoft and Apple who release updates knowing they have bugs and when customers found them they reported them and out came revisions.

I am glad o am out of this

This is a 3rd party issue. The problem is that everything is so centralised and interconnected now and we are too reliant on third parties now. The scenarios to test are endless.....

The only failsafe for ms windows crowdstrike users would be to have a Mac equivalent wouldn't it ? Which would be very expensive.

 

[raymondo]

I have been asked quite a few times to come out of retirement to help companies write dr/bc plans and review their strategies.

30+ years of experience building IBM systems from As400 to RS6000 and series recoveries and rebuilding

On another tack we used redspam not crowdstrike as the latter was known to not test their releases, like Microsoft and Apple who release updates knowing they have bugs and when customers found them they reported them and out came revisions.

I am glad o am out of this

I am sure companies would pay you well for your experience help...but you probably wouldn't want all the sh*t that would go with it .

Good decision, enjoy your retirement .

 

[RandyWanger]

This, totally agree. WTF is DR?

Disaster Recovery

 

[raymondo]

This, totally agree. WTF is DR?

Disaster Recovery... unless you whooshed me, in which case... nice one