Rick Wong

Fortifying Fintech: Mitigating the risks of cloud downtime and CDN outages

When Intuit sold their largest data center in 2018, they did something every fintech company already understood – innovation and operational efficiency are critical to success in a fierce market landscape.  According to Gartner, 85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first strategy by 2025. In terms of new businesses, 95% of new digital workloads are …

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3 tips for risk managers to protect against cloud outages

Three ways Risk Managers can protect their companies from cloud outages

On May 6, 2022, services housed on Google Cloud Platform’s us-central-1 faltered. Customers relying on impacted services experienced high latency and errors in multiple services. The outage didn’t gain national headlines like AWS’s December crashes or Fastly’s June CDN outage. But for anyone assessing risk, the takeaway is clear: you never know timing or the …

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