A Day which was not "Soft" for Microsoft: A "Hard" Lesson to All
A Microsoft cloud failure caused widespread disruption and turmoil on a global scale.
The flight operations were negatively impacted by the interruption. Akasa
Airlines has declared that there would be a temporary outage of many of its
online services at the airports in Delhi and Mumbai. In a statement, Spice Jet
added that it is presently experiencing a technical problem with its ability to
provide flight information.
Additionally, Indigo Airlines reported that a Microsoft outage is also
affecting its systems. A statement stated that certain flights, booking,
check-in, and access to your boarding card might be affected during
Australian news sites further stated that the loss of
computer systems caused disruptions to banks, airlines, telecommunications
companies, and media broadcasters. In New Zealand, some banks claimed to be
offline as well.
Cyber-security experts warned that even though there is now
a software fix, it will take a lot of work to get computers back
up and running.
Researcher Kevin Beaumont said, "As systems no longer
start, impacted systems will need to be started in ‘Safe Mode’, to remove the
faulty update. This is incredibly time-consuming and will take organizations
days to do at scale. Essentially we have one of the world’s highest impact IT
incidents caused by a cyber-security vendor.
The Microsoft outage serves as a reminder that technical issues can arise in large multinational corporations. Many large digital platforms have experienced technological issues in recent years. Similar issues were previously encountered by Amazon, Google, and Meta. What steps may we take to avoid harm?
Since "prevention is better than cure," the
business and commerce sectors ought to take proactive measures of their own to
lessen disruption and damage. Cloud services are undoubtedly dependable, but in
an emergency of this nature, business sectors need to have their own protocols
and policies in place to either completely avoid damage or at least
significantly reduce it.
Another lesson is that in today's tech-savvy environment,
service disruptions might happen. Nobody can provide a perfect guarantee. The
large platform has issues as well. Put another way, we may argue that
difficulties are a natural part of life and that they can be overcome with
perseverance and ingenuity.
Jai Hind!
-- Harsh Pargat
Very good..
ReplyDeleteSee it happened like TITANIC Entire incident happened like TITANIC.....builders of vessel throught that the ship building Co. Harland & Wolff one of British Shipping Co.that too it was built in Belfast for transatlantic passage between Southampton, England and Newyork luxurious ship reported to be UNSINKABLE. *************************Similar incident happened with Microsoft Outage:- Points needed to self analysed is failure at Global level. 1. Faulty /bugs in Software 2.Sensor Configuration encountered conflict issues ! 3.Protection Mechanism Failed miserably. 4. If Falcon platform issue 5. Parallel back up is not from other supporting vendor 6. Configuration triggered logic error BSOD on system 7. SOP violations due to not having redundant seamless back 8. How come one of most reputed brand like MS deploy such type of cyber security fails to provide work load protection and EDS failing so badly
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