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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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Waymo and Cruise dominated autonomous testing in California in the first year of the pandemic

The Verge

But companies licensed to operate AVs on public roads in California still logged nearly 2 million miles of testing, with two of the top operators, Waymo and Cruise, comprising the bulk of those miles thanks to what some safety drivers allege was a lax attitude toward safety. a decrease of about 800,000 miles from the previous year.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. May 2011: Autonomy sneaks in one last acquisition, of online backup service Iron Mountain Digital, for $380 million. September 2011: HP fires Apotheker, naming Meg Whitman CEO.

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Switch hacker Gary W. Bowser given 40-month sentence, owes Nintendo $14.5M

GeekWire

Nintendo itself has arguably driven the creation of a hacking community around the Switch by refusing to allow its users to make local backups of their save files. It also actually drew fire from within the piracy community in 2018 because its own software required a paid license to work. That license has, of course, been hacked.).

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO Business Intelligence

We had third-party independent consultants come in to analyze certain systems and licensing. But in early 2018, the first major hiccup hit us as the independent party who did the audit missed the terms of use on some of our licensing. Some licenses aren’t valid if you don’t own the rights to the lower-level equipment.

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Esteemed UK academy proves innovation without disruption is possible

CIO Business Intelligence

Avaya Cloud Office provides KBA with their primary voice, video, messaging, and intelligent voice routing as standard and provides backup for other communication platforms if they are unavailable, such as texting and social messaging. This provides a valuable audit trail while enhancing the safeguarding of both students and staff.

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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

The PRTG solution will provide you with detailed tracking data and historical reports on all network components. Detailed reports. Installed will be a proprietary database, web server, report engine, notification system, and other features required for the system to function. Paessler’s CEO talks about PRTG.

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