IT outage

yesterday there was a hugely impactful I.T. systems outage at such a scale that the catastrophic effects, across so many industries and facets of our lives, the extent of loss truly can’t be calculated. It was almost like the uneventful y2k had lashes out of the blue some 24 years later. Planes were grounded. Hospitals couldn’t function. Bank accounts seized up. Corporate network users got the Blue Screen of Death. But despite first reaction, it wasn’t a cyber attack. Literally it was just a patch being rolled out by Crowdstrike across a wide swath of Microsofts public cloud. They identified it quickly but the damage was already done. That was yesterday and recovery is still ongoing for many organizations. Delta was amongst those hardest hit. Thousands stranded thru cancelled flights. Steph and Jules amongst then. They ended up switching to Southwest with a wuick layover in Dallas. If all goes well I’ll pick them up at the airport tonite. It is crazy making. A trip to Boulder they’ll never forget

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