Downtime stories

Financial firms reap strong AIOps returns but poor data quality and fragmented tools are stalling the leap from pilots to scaled AI.

ABM completes WGNSTAR acquisition, bolstering semiconductor cleanroom and tool services as chipmakers expand advanced fab capacity worldwide.

Financial firms see strong AI returns but Riverbed survey shows most projects stall in pilots, held back by data quality and tool sprawl.

NeuBird AI appoints Venkat Ramakrishnan president and COO to scale its agentic AI SRE platform and expand global commercial operations.

Cybit warns UK boards that rapid AI adoption and cloud shifts are driving higher tech risk in 2026, with downtime now eclipsing data loss.

DigiCert warns Q4 internet traffic stayed high as DDoS and app-layer attacks grew longer and more intense, eroding traditional peak seasons.

NETSCOUT equips nGeniusONE and Edge Sensors with Wi-Fi 7 and deeper SSL/TLS visibility to tackle remote-site blind spots and expiry risks.

Dell warns Australian firms face mounting “resilience debt” as prevention outspends recovery, leaving backups exposed to cyberattacks.

UK IT teams say alert fatigue and tool overload are driving outages, customer disruption and rising burnout, Splunk research shows.

AI-ready data centres push fire protection into early design, as liquid cooling and high-density racks reshape risk, resilience and recovery.

Banks face outages costing USD $1.8 million an hour as New Relic says AI-driven observability becomes vital for risk, CX and resilience.

HPE rolls out new Aruba switches, Marvis-powered analytics and Nonstop servers to keep retail transactions and in-store networks always on.

Australia’s cloud security spend is soaring, yet 40% of network traffic still lacks context, leaving teams confident but effectively half-blind.

Industrial ransomware attacks climbed 13% in Q3 2025 to 742 cases worldwide, with manufacturing absorbing nearly three quarters of hits.

Firms that embed AI in digital workplace tools are twice as likely to beat revenue goals, as gaps widen with slower-moving rivals.

PagerDuty has earned the AWS Resilience Services Competency, proving its software aids firms in keeping critical systems operational and recovering fast from failures.

Next-gen data centres rely on advanced, modular cooling and proactive operations to manage rising demands and costly outages in digital infrastructure.

Connectivity is transforming construction sites by reducing downtime, boosting productivity, and enhancing safety, vital for the booming 2025 data centre sector.

Businesses face severe cyber risks in 2026 as outdated IT and rising threats demand urgent action to avoid costly breaches and compliance failures.

Half of UK businesses faced cyber incidents last year, yet many lack robust plans, risking costly downtime and operational disruption from cybercrime.