Best Of 2024: What It Service Leaders Can Learn From Crowdstrike Chaos
Techstrong ITSM, Monday, December 23rd, 2024
With CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.'s stock in freefall after a calamitous outage that rippled across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa on Friday, wiping out billions of dollars from the global economy, IT leaders had advice - and words of caution - on how to minimize a repeat of a digital breakdown that many are calling the real Y2K.
'Following 'Friday's' outage, we expect various IT processes and applications could see lingering problems for days, creating a 'blast radius' unlike we've seen in recent years,' Chuck Herrin, field chief technology officer for API Security at F5, said.
'Outages are not a problem we're going to completely solve. Cloud environments are only growing more complex and interconnected,' Spencer Kimball, chief executive and co-founder of database startup Cockroach Labs, said in an email message