disaster recovery

The calendar year closed with a blunt reminder for IT leaders: 2025 was as much about spectacular innovation as it was about spectacular failures. From multi‑hour hyperscaler outages that left entire swathes of the public internet showing error pages to courtroom battles tied to failed ERP...

Storage Sense is the quiet Windows 11 background tool that will automatically clean up temporary files, empty your Recycle Bin, remove stale downloads when asked, and even convert locally cached OneDrive files to online‑only — and enabling it correctly can keep a busy PC feeling responsive...

INTERCEPT's new guidance on Microsoft Azure arrives at a moment when many small businesses are rethinking their IT stacks, and its central claim — that Azure can be a practical, secure, and cost‑effective cloud choice for SMBs — is largely supported by Microsoft’s product architecture and the...

Microsoft Azure’s West Europe cloud region suffered a significant outage on 5 November after a datacenter “thermal event” triggered automated protective shutdowns that took a subset of storage scale units offline, producing degraded performance and service interruptions for a range of platform...

Microsoft's cloud backbone entered emergency recovery mode after a pervasive outage centered on Azure Front Door (AFD) disrupted Microsoft’s own services and thousands of customer endpoints worldwide, forcing engineers to roll back to a “last known good” configuration, freeze further AFD...

A single morning of cascading failures in a major cloud region can feel like an earthquake for the internet — and the October 20 AWS disruption showed how fragile the modern AI stack can be when core cloud control‑plane services wobble. Background Cloud computing has quietly reshaped how...

U.S. enterprises are accelerating adoption of Cloud Backup Services from IBN Technologies as part of broader efforts to harden business continuity, streamline disaster recovery, and reduce the operational risk posed by ransomware, system failures, and regulatory complexity. The vendor’s...

As floodwaters finally withdrew from neighborhoods across Central Texas, what remained were not only ruined homes and broken roads but a healthcare system stretched to — and in some places past — its breaking point, leaving communities still struggling to rebuild months after the deluge...

Caylent’s new AI-driven migration package lands squarely in the crossfire of a reshaped virtualization market, promising an output-based, pay-only-for-success model designed to pull VMware, Azure and GCP workloads into AWS while leaning on Amazon Bedrock and AWS migration services to speed...

Microsoft’s incremental update to Windows 365 Boot turns an already useful sign-in shortcut into a far more resilient, IT-friendly entry point to Cloud PCs, adding direct access to the Connection Center, built‑in troubleshooting flows, display customization, and a paid cross‑region disaster...

More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 even as Microsoft’s official support deadline looms, creating a wide and growing security gap that affects consumers, small businesses, and enterprise networks alike. New telemetry shared publicly via cybersecurity vendor...

Microsoft's latest updates to the Windows 365 family push the Cloud PC experience closer to a full, resilient desktop replacement — but they also raise important questions for IT about licensing, capacity, and user data protection. The company has expanded the Connection Center experience so...

Windows shipping with System Restore (System Protection) turned off by default is one of those small, baffling defaults that quietly raises the stakes when things go wrong — but it’s also an easy fix that can save hours of troubleshooting and a reinstall. The built‑in System Restore feature...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed on September 6, 2025, forcing large volumes of traffic onto longer, congested routes and exposing brittle points in the global internet backbone...

Nutanix’s recent announcement — republished by several outlets — that it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure is a noteworthy PR moment for the company and a useful opening to examine how the vendor’s product strategy and market positioning...

Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...

Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe experienced measurable latency and intermittent slowdowns after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on September 6, 2025, forcing cloud traffic onto longer detours while Microsoft and...

Microsoft’s Azure customers in and around the Middle East experienced measurable latency and service disruption after multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic onto longer, more congested routes and exposing persistent fragilities in the global internet...

Internet traffic between South Asia, the Gulf and parts of the Middle East slowed dramatically after multiple subsea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing carriers and cloud providers to reroute traffic, prompting Microsoft Azure to warn customers of higher latency and exposing...

Multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut on 6 September 2025, triggering measurable slowdowns and intermittent connectivity across South Asia and the Middle East and forcing major cloud and carrier operators — most visibly Microsoft Azure — to reroute traffic, warn customers...