CrowdStrike CEO has apologized to the company’s customers and partners for crashing their Windows systems, and the company has described the error that caused the disaster. “I want to sincerely apologize directly to all of you for today’s outage. All of CrowdStrike understands the gravity and impact of the situation,” CrowdStrike founder and CEO George…
CrowdStrike has admitted to pushing out a bad software update, causing many Windows machines running the affected software to crash. The problem, apparently affecting its Falcon platform, brought down servers at airlines, locked up computers at banks, and hurt healthcare services. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single…
To weather disruption, resiliency is essential, but building a culture that is capable of adapting to a constantly changing technology landscape is challenging given escalating skills gaps today. According to a survey from SAS, only 47% of executives view their organization as resilient despite 97% agreeing that the trait is vital to business. Additionally, 46%…
It can be easy to neglect the start of your transformation program when your organization and team are set on the larger, big-picture goals of the initiative. But the below examples reflect a few first 30-day experiences I’ve seen throughout my career. Just like anything, a good start helps to ensure a great finish. You…
SAP has announced enhancements to Rise with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, giving customers of both of its commercial tiers access to SAP’s artificial intelligence copilot, Joule, which the company has been working to embed across its portfolio. As part of the announcement, the Premium and Premium Plus tiers of SAP’s private cloud version of…
Cloud security firm Wiz has probed SAP defenses as part of its tenant isolation research on AI service providers, and on Wednesday published a lengthy list of shortcomings. SAP says that they fixed all of the problems before Wiz published. Most deal with either a lack of meaningful segmentation or network components trusting other components…
Emerging technologies are transforming organizations of all sizes, but with the seemingly endless possibilities they bring, they also come with new challenges surrounding data management that IT departments must solve. Technologies such as AI, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), require the right infrastructure to support moving data securely across environments. This means…
Many organizations across industries depend on the mainframe to support critical operations, leveraging this IT infrastructure to handle massive amounts of data and transactions in an agile and secure environment. Because mainframes are so critical, organizations need them to also be resilient and reliable. This is why it’s so important for IT teams to have…
Mainframe systems process a vast amount of vital transactions daily—that includes everything from the swipe of a credit card at the grocery store to purchasing an airline ticket online or accessing sensitive healthcare information. A Rocket Software survey found that over half (51%) of IT leaders rely on mainframe systems to handle all, or nearly…
The early bills for generative AI experimentation are coming in, and many CIOs are finding them more hefty than they’d like — some with only themselves to blame. “We’re getting back into this frenetic spend mode that we saw in the early days of cloud,” observed James Greenfield, vice president of AWS Commerce Platform, at…