More than 1800 flights cancelled due to Delta Airlines system outage
On early Monday, August 8, Delta Airlines experienced a massive computer outage that forced it to cancel more than 1800 flights and delay many more. The problem began with a critical power control module at the airline’s technology command centre which caused a surge to the transformer and a loss of power. The power was restored quickly, but the real problem was the fact that critical systems and network equipment didn’t switch over to backups. Customer service system for check-ins, conduct boarding & dispatch aircraft were affected.
“We are sorry our technology failure inconvenienced so many customers and are grateful for the faith and patience so many have shown in Delta” – Gil West (Delta COO)
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Official operations update from Delta Airlines: Delta News Would the public cloud have saved Delta: Dyn Blog Read more: ZDNet
“Off-Path” Linux Attacks
A new serious security vulnerability in Linux operating system kernel was demonstrated on August 10, 2016 at the 25th USENIX security symposium. “Off-Path TCP Exploit” vulnerability allows attackers to terminate connections between vulnerable Linux hosts and inject malicious payloads into the communication if the connections are not encrypted. An attacker which knows a connections client IP, server IP and server port can abuse the challenge ACK mechanism to determine the accuracy of a normally “blind” attack on the client or server.
Akamai reports that the amount of viewers watching the olympic games in Rio this year has topped the total amount of viewers that watched London Summer Olympics in 2012 and Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 combined. Akamai is supporting the streaming efforts of over 50 different broadcasters and partners with the rights to the game, so they have unique insights into the current numbers.
In April, CloudFlare announced support for HTTP/2 Server Push via the HTTP Link Header and now they explain how to implement it. They wanted to make it easy to improve the performance of contemporary websites built with Node.js so they developed the netjet middleware to parse the generated HTML and automatically add the Link headers.
CDNetworks helps Bang & Olufsen to reduce website load times
Traditionally, Bang & Olufsen products have been sold mainly through retail networks across more than 100 countries. Recently, the company launched initiatives for global growth, their new robust online presence is aimed at mid-level and high-end customers in the world’s fastest growing consumer markets. One of these emerging markets is China, where they experienced slow load times. After going with CDNetworks to help them with the issue the problem was quickly solved.
Shared Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) have been a common workaround for reducing EC2 costs, but their value has always been limited. On average, these shared pools deliver only 25% savings on On-Demand costs—far below the 60% savings achievable with automated reservation tools. For IT and DevOps teams, the trade-offs include added complexity, […]
What does the next decade of cybersecurity hold? Few can answer that better than Shlomo Kramer—co-founder of Check Point and Imperva, and founder & CEO of Cato Networks. In a candid conversation on the CloudNext podcast, Shlomo shared bold predictions and actionable strategies for navigating the challenges and opportunities ahead. From the rise of SASE […]
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73% of CISOs fear a material cyberattack in the next 12 months, with over three-quarters convinced AI is advancing too quickly for existing methods to combat it. But what can CISOs do to prepare for the coming wave – and access the resources they need to deal with this evolving threat landscape? To find out, […]
Kafka is no longer exclusively the domain of high-velocity Big Data use cases. Today, it is utilized on by workloads and companies of all sizes, supporting asynchronous communication between even small groups of microservices. But this expanded usage has led to problems with cost creep that threaten many companies’ bottom lines. And due to the […]
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