The recent IT outage at British Airways has been blamed on a power supply failure at the companyβs data center, causing hundreds of flights to be delayed or canceled and affecting as many as 75,000 customers.
The outage should have been mitigated by backup generators and fail-safe mechanisms, but these appear to have been interconnected with the failed power supply, causing a system-wide shutdown which could end up costing the company up to $100 million.
This incident highlights the need for businesses to maintain effective backup and disaster recovery (BDR) technologies and processes, as IT systems and data have become mission-critical assets in virtually every industry today.
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Source: DRJ New feed
