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Analysis: Was a global IT outage inevitable?

Unless there’s a concerted effort by a lot more tech industry vendors than just CrowdStrike, it’s unlikely to be the last incident of this kind.

25 July 2024 • 3 min read

Analysis: Was a global IT outage inevitable?

Within the software industry, it has long been a cliche´ to point out the inevitability of bugs. As the thinking goes, the world of software is insanely complex, and the potential impact of fall...

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