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⚠️ Businesses globally have been disrupted by a recent IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update. But while the company says there's a workaround, experts have warned that the sheer scale of the issue means it could take 'days and weeks' to fully resolve. ♻️ Because this issue is forcing many machines into boot loops or the dreaded 'blue screen of death', it could be some time before the majority of systems are back online, according to Leon Smith at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. 💬 "In some cases, the fix may be applied very quickly, but because it has to be applied to so many computers around the world, that may take longer than it sounds. 💬 “But if computers have reacted in a way that means they're getting into blue screens and endless loops it may be difficult to restore, and that could take days and weeks.” 📝 ITPro's Solomon Klappholz has more in our latest coverage of the disruption. #Windows | #CrowdStrike | #ITOutage | #BSOD

🔓 Roughly half of the population of Australia was impacted by a cyber attack on MediSecure, an electronic prescription provider, in April 2024. 💡 A disastrous breach by any standards, the current plight of the company means that the situation has deteriorated further. ❓ MediSecure has since entered administration and was forced to liquidate its assets, meaning customers impacted in the breach might never find out if their personal data was compromised. 📝 ITPro's Solomon Klappholz has a full run down of the breach and its wide-reaching impact. #DataProtection | #DataPrivacy | #Cybersecurity

🚨 UPDATE 🚨 CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has responded to the incident, taking to X to confirm that the company is "actively working with customers" to resolve the issue. Kurtz revealed the incident was caused by a "defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts". The chief executive emphasized that the source of this incident was not due to a security incident or cyber attack. 💬 "The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website," he said. 

A slew of businesses worldwide have been taken offline in a major IT outage believed to be caused by issues relating to CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor platform. Organizations in Australia first reported issues, with users reporting early on Friday that they had been locked out of work devices. Delays to flights have been reported globally while broadcasters in the UK were knocked offline and forced to play archive footage as a result of the incident. Sources told ITPro they've encountered significant disruption this morning, sharing screenshots showing them being met with the dreaded 'blue screen of death' and being unable to load Windows. #Microsoft | #CrowdStrike | #ITOutage

☁️ Over a third (40%) of mid-market It leaders feel rushed into complex cloud migrations which ultimately went worse than planned, according to new research from Six Degrees. 📝 ITPro's George Fitzmaurice caught up with Six Degrees’ CPTO Chris Jackson to explore the factors behind this frantic push to migrate to the cloud, along with the pitfalls of making the shift too quickly. 💬 “I can say from lived experience that migrating to the cloud is much, much harder than the sentence makes out. As you start to then get into the real scope of what needs to change inside an organization, you start to find that it's a much, much broader business-wide focus." #CloudComputing | #CloudMigration | #Cloud

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💬 “We wanted to become the Rolls-Royce of cloud hosting” 📈 Hyve Managed Hosting already has an established footprint in the UK and Europe and has grown rapidly in recent years, expanding its headcount and recording 51% revenue growth since 2021. 🌎 But the Brighton-headquartered firm isn't stopping there. It recently moved into the US with the launch of a new base of operations in Austin - and it's a market CEO Jake Madders believes is ripe with opportunity. 📝 ITPro's Ross Kelly caught up with Jake to discuss Hyve's expansion plans and how the company is working to meet the changing demands of customers amid a period dominated by concerning cloud costs, data sovereignty requirements, and generative AI. #CloudComputing | #MultiCloud | #HybridCloud

💬 “We wanted to become the Rolls-Royce of cloud hosting” 📈 Hyve Managed Hosting already has an established footprint in the UK and Europe and has grown rapidly in recent years, expanding its headcount and recording 51% revenue growth since 2021. 🌎 But the Brighton-headquartered firm isn't stopping there. It recently moved into the US with the launch of a new base of operations in Austin - and it's a market CEO Jake Madders believes is ripe with opportunity. 📝 ITPro's Ross Kelly caught up with Jake to discuss Hyve's expansion plans and how the company is working to meet the changing demands of customers amid a period dominated by concerning cloud costs, data sovereignty requirements, and generative AI. #CloudComputing | #MultiCloud | #HybridCloud

Last week, the think tank of former British prime minister Tony Blair launched a policy paper claiming that large swathes of public sector work could be automated using AI. But experts have pushed back on attempts to paint AI as the silver bullet for efficiency, stressing that this is only possible by integrating AI in an appropriate way for each specific organization. 📝 ITPro's Solomon Klappholz explores why AI adoption at scale might create serious issues for public sector organizations. #AI | #PublicSector | #Productivity

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