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A collection of 5 issues

Google with a late night announcement

Ah late Friday announcements. Google have explained how they deleted Unisupers account - their $125billion pension fund customer in Australia causing two weeks of downtime “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backupsUniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare.Ars TechnicaRon Amadeo Now

CloudNordic goes under

How bad can ransomware be? Last year the Danish cloud hosting company CloudNordic suffered a particularly vicious attack. Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack | TechCrunchCloudNordic said a ransomware attack destroyed customer data on its servers, including primary and secondary backups.TechCrunchZack Whittaker Eight months later

Personal BCP

Occasionally I'll think about a personal BCP. I've never lost my phone - but if you have then you'll know why I'm thinking about it. I don't carry a wallet anymore. Everything is contactless. Money, train or flight tickets? All

The longest Atlassian Outage

Quite a sobering read and something to bear in mind when you consider ‘Plan B’ for SaaS applications. 10 days later and only 49% of those impacted have ‘functionality’ restored. A bit of a Black Swan event but I’ll certainly think about it when considering resilience. The Scoop: Inside

Brainstorming BCP and DR

Earlier this week I was brainstorming BCP/DR tabletop scenarios that needed to be based on reality. With decentralised SaaS, AWS, Azure or Google, backups and a remote capable workforce - it’s not so easy to come up with something sensible and credible that has a large impact (which