#BWI #Outage

From CBS News.com: Thousands of travelers impacted by power outage at BWI Airport

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/bwi-airport-power-outage-maryland/

A massive blackout has left most of Chile without power, stranding commuters and shutting down businesses. Read more from @AssociatedPress
https://flip.it/9mHVO3
#Chile #SouthAmerica #Blackouts #Electricity #Outage

Looking through my Facebook memories I was reminded of a valuable piece of advice for every tech manager and executive on the planet:

Telling engineers during an outage that an outage is "bad" is a complete waste of everyone's time and a surefire way to make the outage last longer simply because your ego told you that you needed to insert yourself into the situation and to interrupt everyone to feel as though you're doing something important.

Either sit down and shut up, or ask people what they need to be successful.

Frontier FIOS having issues in my part of the world, most unhelpful response LOL.

Frontier: I see your service is currently impacted by an outage.

Frontier: Is there anything else I can help you with today?

With the current #TPG #outage in #Australia if any users are currently considering changing provider, I highly recommend #AussieBB. Been with them for a year and no problems, speeds are always as advertised and they offer up to gigabit speeds.

Here is my referral link: https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/internet/nbn-plans/?c=13007752

I believe they are still offering free FTTP upgrades if you're on #copper or #wireless.

Privacy firm Proton suffered a massive worldwide outage today, taking down most services, with Proton Mail and Calendar users still unable to connect to their accounts. #Proton #outage #CyberSecurity https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/proton-mail-still-down-as-proton-recovers-from-worldwide-outage/

Microsoft 365 outage impacts Exchange Online, Teams, Sharepoint

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-impacts-exchange-online-teams-sharepoint/
#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftExchange #MicrosoftTeams #Sharepoint #Technology #Outage

Microsoft has informed customers that it lost security logs for its #cloud products during a two-week period in September due to a #bug.

This missing data could hinder the ability to detect unauthorized access and threats.

The issue was not caused by a security incident, and #Microsoft has since rolled back the service change that led to the #outage.

#tech

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/microsoft-said-it-lost-weeks-of-security-logs-for-its-customers-cloud-products/

El mundo godin en crisis por el #outage de Outlook

Microsoft's new Outlook experiences major global outage on October 10, 2024 https://msftnewsnow.com/microsoft-outlook-experiences-major-global-outage/?feed_id=164&_unique_id=6708124bc42a0…

Some stuff nowadays is straight out of a comedy show... "A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard." #funny #it #cat #outage #news
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/hospital_cat_incident/

This morning, I took my wife to the hospital for routine blood tests that had been scheduled for some time. Everything was going smoothly: check-in, number, waiting room. Suddenly, everything came to a halt and shut down. I was connected to the hospital’s public Wi-Fi and noticed that my connection also went down.

Having managed a couple of similar facilities, I immediately understood what had happened. I saw the staff panicking and calling the technicians, but they quickly reorganized within 10 minutes. They managed to process everyone who already had a number and then proceeded with the others in the order of their arrival. Despite the ten-minute delay (even though people started complaining right away), they were extremely efficient.

I later confirmed that the entire booking, check-in, and queue system is “in the cloud.” The hospital experienced a connectivity interruption, and all related services stopped. The staff no longer had access to anything, so a technician sent the lists to a manager via another channel, and everything resumed manually.

For years, I’ve insisted that certain things MUST be local. The healthcare facilities I manage have all the necessary systems for the operation of the facility internally, including patient records. External services like websites, emails, etc., are secondary.

Everything essential must always be accessible locally and, in special cases, it should be possible to physically access the servers and connect directly to them, bypassing any network/switch failures.

There has been only one interruption in the past, due to human error. Today, we have redundant servers (not HA on virtualizers, but two machines running the same software with replicated databases - on separate power lines) so such an issue shouldn’t happen anymore.

Not everything can be anticipated, but history is a great teacher. The Internet connection will eventually be interrupted :-)

When it comes to the health and survival of people, there are no compromises.