Global computer outage is one of the biggest in history
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Published 2024-07-19
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All Comments (21)
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No Software Update Policy? Bad SLA? Test, small scale deployment, sit-and-wait, get approval, no uncontrollable automatic deployment… Risk Management Committee, CIO, CFO, all incompetent.
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I think this is what people were afraid of when Y2K was about to happen. Didn't think I would actually experience a global computer crisis of this scale in my lifetime.
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Those IT guys who were were in airport to witness this global event are unfortunately lucky 😂😂😂
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This is what happens when you outsource your IT.
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I do not believe it's hyperbole to say it's THE biggest outage of all time.
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Crowdstrike fixed it going forward. Every system still needed IT to go to the console and boot it into a recovery mode or safe mode. This is what I had to do all day to fix our systems. Crowdstrike should be ashamed for having such poor quality assurance and Microsoft should be ashamed that when this or a similar drive fails, it doesn't allow it to boot. They can code something in the future to still allow the system to boot.
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Pushing a change to a production environment on Friday?.., very poor change management..
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Western media omitted that only Russia and China are not affected....because they use separate systems
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Why isnt anyone asking the 2nd most important question over this Crowdstrike debacle. Who is responsible for the billions if not trillions of dollars in losses Crowdstrike caused worldwide ?
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Microsoft and other big companies need to be held accountable. Big money fine's for companies who put out bad updates! This could have been caught if double checked. Test before release. If one has to go back to the old format that should always be possible. Many computers won't recover from this mistake.
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I feel so bad about that elderly man that has his heart surgery postponed….
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The fact that we have no redundancy systems in place is ridiculous.
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CEO of Crowdstrike should invest in a suit and tie. He looks like he is on a zoom from Hawaii.
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Why do I feel like we're being lied to?
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Nothing comes close to this one.
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Didn’t test their code before pushing out the update into production. And they did this on a Friday, before the weeekend, definitely a no no in the IT world. Someone screened up, royally
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I find it surprising that corporations don’t do the same thing that I do when updating computers. I only do one at a time manually and it is separated from my home network. If it doesn’t work on the first computer, I know where to stop.
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I'm flying in two weeks. Relieved that I missed it.
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Hello Theo, let me give some perspective to the level of headache this is from a corporate IT team perspective. Our company has 10k servers across the globe - all down. Last night MS reached out and our limited IT team last night (it's Saturday in India) could only bring up 250 something servers ! A lot of them we couldn't even log into ! And it was saturday night !
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That's just a bit hyperbolic. Computers haven't really been around all that long when it comes to overall human history. So, to say that it is the biggest outage in history is not that big a deal. If they were around for hundreds of years, then maybe that would be something of a big statement.
