In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, hosts Camberley Bates, Steven Dickens, and Krista Case discuss various topics including Krista's recent wedding, the CrowdStrike outage, and its implications on cybersecurity, Microsoft's East Coast Azure outage, and the recent earnings reports of IBM and Google Cloud. Krista emphasizes the importance of cyber resiliency and the need for a robust recovery plan. Steven and Camberley highlight the significance of multi-vendor strategies to mitigate risks and the role of regulation in addressing systemic issues in cloud services. They conclude with insights into the financial performances of IBM and Google Cloud, noting the increasing investments in AI and infrastructure.
The key talking points include:
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CrowdStrike Outage: The largest outage in history due to a flawed update to CrowdStrike's Falcon solution, affecting 1% of Windows machines and highlighting the need for disaster recovery and cyber resiliency plans.
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Microsoft Azure Outage: A major storage update caused a 14-hour outage in Microsoft's U.S. East Coast region, underscoring the need for multi-cloud and multi-region strategies.
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Cybersecurity Market Dynamics: Discussions on the importance of dual-vendor approaches and regulatory frameworks like Europe's DORA to mitigate risks in concentrated cloud markets.
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Earnings Reports: Analysis of IBM's 8% growth in mainframe revenue and Google's $10.35 billion cloud revenue, driven by AI and infrastructure investments, with a focus on expanding geos and sovereign cloud deployments.
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