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Sentinel ICCS picks Macrium for legacy system recovery
Disaster Recovery

Sentinel ICCS picks Macrium for legacy system recovery

Legacy industrial sites with air-gapped networks will gain faster recovery planning after Sentinel ICCS standardised on Macrium for backup support.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Last month
Smart CT expands stock with 10,000 spare parts buy
Network Infrastructure

Smart CT expands stock with 10,000 spare parts buy

Greater spare-parts cover should cut downtime for customers after the Reading-based IT support group lifted stock by almost a third.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Fri, 19th Jun 2026

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Downtime stories

Five control rooms, one tuesday afternoon
Robotics

Five control rooms, one tuesday afternoon

Alarm floods across data centres, pipelines and power grids can now be reduced to one incident, if operators can route and document fast enough.

By Kamalensh Srikanth • 9 min read • Last week
Felk warns AI is fuelling attacks on smaller firms
Malware

Felk warns AI is fuelling attacks on smaller firms

Smaller firms face faster and costlier breaches as AI cuts the time hackers need to exploit software flaws from weeks to hours.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month
Google adds failover for multi-region Cloud Run services
Disaster Recovery

Google adds failover for multi-region Cloud Run services

Downtime risk is lower for apps running across multiple regions, as traffic can now shift to a healthy Cloud Run region within seconds.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month
ManageEngine automates TLS certificate post-deployment
Software-as-a-Service

ManageEngine automates TLS certificate post-deployment

Shorter TLS certificate lifespans are set to raise outage risk and admin burden, as teams face far more frequent renewals and installs.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month
Cloudhouse launches outage stress test amid AI risks
Software-as-a-Service

Cloudhouse launches outage stress test amid AI risks

Businesses face greater outage exposure as cloud, automation and AI add hidden dependencies, especially when summer holidays thin IT teams.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last month
Asia firms adopt agentic AI faster than resilience
Robotics

Asia firms adopt agentic AI faster than resilience

Recovery plans are lagging as Asian companies rush into agentic AI, with average incident downtime stretching to 28 days, a survey found.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month
ExRobotics launches UL-certified inspection robot in US
Robotics

ExRobotics launches UL-certified inspection robot in US

North American oil and gas, LNG and chemical plants can now use a certified robot to cut risky manual inspections and downtime.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 30th Jun 2026
Ransomware victims spot attacks only after data theft
Malware

Ransomware victims spot attacks only after data theft

Almost half of ransomware victims discovered breaches only after data theft, underscoring how attackers are evading detection for weeks.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Fri, 26th Jun 2026
Visibility can shield you against $15k/min downtime
Disaster Recovery

Visibility can shield you against $15k/min downtime

Blind spots in monitoring are pushing outage bills higher, with Splunk estimating average downtime now costs USD $15,000 a minute.

By Anthony Caruana • 4 min read • Thu, 4th Jun 2026
Zero Networks OT customer base rises 80% amid demand
Ransomware

Zero Networks OT customer base rises 80% amid demand

Industrial operators are turning to tighter network controls to curb cyberattacks, with OT now featuring in 26% of Zero Networks deals.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Mon, 1st Jun 2026

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Internal AI systems emerge as top breach risk: report
Ransomware

Internal AI systems emerge as top breach risk: report

Security teams are struggling to spot intrusions until after data is stolen, with 85% of leaders reporting AI-linked incidents or near misses.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Sat, 27th Jun 2026
Australia's resilience problem isn't redundancy. It's shared infrastructure
Network Infrastructure

Australia's resilience problem isn't redundancy. It's shared infrastructure

Shared fibre routes can leave supposedly redundant links exposed to the same outage, a risk growing as AI workloads demand uninterrupted connectivity.

By Mark Rafferty • 5 min read • Fri, 26th Jun 2026
Claroty flags data centre risks in Vertiv & Trane kit
Data centers

Claroty flags data centre risks in Vertiv & Trane kit

Cooling and power systems in data centres could be exposed to remote takeover, threatening uptime as AI workloads drive reliance on critical infrastructure.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Wed, 10th Jun 2026
PointsBet picks Grafana Cloud for betting platform
DevOps

PointsBet picks Grafana Cloud for betting platform

Better visibility over outages and latency should help PointsBet protect live-betting customers as it unifies telemetry across its platform.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Tue, 9th Jun 2026
Ageing bulk-handling gear threatens Australia exports
Digitalisation

Ageing bulk-handling gear threatens Australia exports

A shortage of specialist support is leaving ageing bulk-handling machines at Australian mines and ports at risk of costly export delays.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Tue, 2nd Jun 2026