7 Major IT Disasters Of 2025
CIO, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Multiple outages at major hyperscalers lasted several hours, causing web services to go down, while a battery fire took out government services in South Korea.
During 2025, several major stories dominated the enterprise IT space, including an increasing interest in AI agents, a growing disillusionment in generative AI, and the ongoing efforts by ERP vendor SAP to move customers to its cloud-based S/4HANA platform.
Like every year, 2025 also saw its share of major enterprise IT disasters, with service outages, failed deployments, and lawsuits targeting vendors. We recently published a list of AI disasters, so we'll mostly avoid replaying them here, and we've largely ignored data breaches because a list of major cyberattacks from the year would number in the hundreds.