It has not been a good few months for the health and consistency of information technology. Two huge outages within a couple of weeks of each other — caused by simple component failures — resulted in massive passenger disruptions and cost two U.S. airlines millions of dollars in lost revenue and customer compensation. These events present quite a few opportunities for learning and improving our own processes, says John Defterios. He says a single IT failure at the wrong place can quickly cost millions, even in the course of just hours.”]
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