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We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost (www.cnn.com)

submitted 3 months ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 100 points 3 months ago (5 children)

"CrowdStrike said it also plans to move to a staggered approach to releasing content updates so that not everyone receives the same update at once, and to give customers more fine-grained control over when the updates are installed."

Hol up. So they like still get to exist? Microsoft and affected industries just gonna kinda move past this?

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 39 points 3 months ago

Haven't seen anything from the affected major players. Obviously Crowdstrike isn't going to say they are fucked long term, they have to act like this is just a little hiccup and move on. Lawsuits are absolutely incoming

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We'll see how fucked they are from SLA breaches/etc., and then we'll see how many companies jump ship to an alternative. We won't have the real fallout from this event for months or years.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Newsflash, Solarwinds still exists too. Not sure I could name a company that screwed up so big and actually paid the price.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

Yeah, what was I thinking. United airlines was bankrupt and literally beating people up on their planes and still got taxpayer payouts and is around paying investors divends still today.

[–] TheLimiter@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Two days ago my company sent out an all hands email that we're going company wide with Crowdstrike.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Nows the time to sign up. They'll slash prices and hopefully never fuck up this bad again.

Have we had a XaaS fuck up real, real bad, twice, yet?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't effected but I bet a lot of admins, as pissed as they were, were thinking "I could easily fuck up this bad or worse".

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, what's the jokey parable thing?

A CTO is at lunch when a call comes in. There's been a huge outage, caused by a low level employee pressing the wrong button.
"Damn, you going to fire that guy?"
"Hell no, do you know how much I just spent on training him to never do that again?"

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Companies using CrowdStrike and Windows aren't really the type to be active about this sort of thing.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by this?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The companies who use CrowdStrike (lazy fix) on Windows (garbage OS) aren't really the type to want to switch away from it (will take effort)

[–] best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I don’t understand the downvotes. You’re right on all points. If the task is too big, it can take years from testing another solution to using it for real.