British Airways IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentre?

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ISSUE DATE: 12 June 2017 TOP STORIES British Airways IT outage: What went wrong with its datacentre? BA has blamed “human error” for its bank holiday datacentre outage, but the Uptime Institute suggests there may be more to it than that. READ MORE → CIO interview: Dan Ziv, TouchNote We find out from Dan Ziv, CIO of TouchNote, what it takes to create a successful app and how companies should assess new technology platforms. READ MORE → Avvo CTO: Tech leaders must embrace failure to get best work from DevOps teams Speaking at the Lead Developer conference in London, Avvo CTO Kevin Goldsmith warns tech leaders not to punish DevOps teams for project failures. READ MORE → ADVERTISEMENT

IN DEPTH CIO interview: James Robbins, CIO, Drax Group Power company is embarking on a technology change programme, aiming to create a more diverse IT set-up and exploit new technologies. READ MORE → Infosec17: UK business should be working on GDPR compliance, says ICO With less than a year to the deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, all companies should have assessed what they need to do and should be working on that, says the Information Commissioner’s Office. READ MORE → Non-EU IT professionals in the UK at an all-time high Survey shows IT business analysts, architects and systems designers, web design and development specialists are the most common skills being brought in. READ MORE → Q&A: Flying the open source flag Red Hat’s vice-president and general manager for the ASEAN region Damien Wong sheds light on the company’s strategy for tackling a market that is not used to paying for software. READ MORE →

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