Website Planet has just posted research that focuses on six decades of global tech outage data to reveal the patterns behind these breakdowns — their root causes, common oversights, and the rising financial losses of simple errors.
Among their findings, they identified the following as key:
- 5 root causes account for nearly 90% of all major outages due to preventable errors.
- Microsoft leads in repeated failures with 8 major outages.
- Cloud and SAAS saw the most failures, followed by financial services.
- 184 major tech outages caused over $167 billion in losses.
You’ll find all the details to their findings here: https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/global-tech-outages-research/
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Research Highlights The Small Errors That Can Break Systems And Result In Big Outages
Website Planet has just posted research that focuses on six decades of global tech outage data to reveal the patterns behind these breakdowns — their root causes, common oversights, and the rising financial losses of simple errors.
Among their findings, they identified the following as key:
You’ll find all the details to their findings here: https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/global-tech-outages-research/
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