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'Preventing Outages in 2023: What We Can Learn from Recent Failures' Provides Analysis of Internet Failures and Key LearningsNEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Catchpoint®, The Internet Resilience Company™, today releases Preventing Outages in 2023, a new white paper comprising of six critical learnings and ten pieces of in-depth analysis of major and hidden outages from across the last 18 months. IT Operations, Network Engineers, and SREs, along with VPs of Infrastructure, CIOs and CTOs will be able to draw on the Catchpoint team’s expertise to learn from the failures of the past and inform future approaches to incident management. The full white paper, Preventing Outages in 2023: What We Can Learn From Recent Failures, is available for download here (no registration required). “What the recent failures from Internet giants demonstrate is that the question of the next outage is not if, but when,” says Dritan Suljoti, Chief Product and Technology Officer of Catchpoint. “Moreover, the downstream effect of major outages to essential Internet infrastructure, such as cloud platforms, CDNs or DNS providers, means that no company is immune, no matter how well prepared they think they are. The white paper demonstrates why it’s so important for all of us to be proactive to reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) when the next outage occurs.” Key lessons from the past include:
“Given the impact of serious outages to the bottom line, not to mention the long-tail impact to brand and reputation, amidst a landscape of increased Internet reliance alongside ever-growing Internet fragility and greater and great complexity, the need for community learnings from past failures to be shared and practical advice disseminated around stemming future major incidents and ensuring Internet Resilience is imperative,” says Gerardo Dada, CMO at Catchpoint. “We believe this white paper offers an invaluable deep dive into recent outages past and key lessons learned that all of us can learn from to prevent (or mitigate the consequences of) the next major outage.” In-depth outage analysis of ten major recent incidents include:
About Catchpoint Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company™. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resiliency by catching any issues in the Internet stack before they impact their business. The Catchpoint platform offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of global vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs. Learn more at www.catchpoint.com Connect with Catchpoint Press Contact: ![]() |