The intensity and the rapid spread of COVID-19 have taken everyone by surprise, forcing many companies to implement work-from-home (WFH) policies with a clearly defined objective: to maintain business as usual. Business continuity and resiliency are being stressed beyond what many had anticipated. Extraordinary events, such as extreme weather conditions…
On this week’s episode of the Internet Report, I’m joined by my colleague, Michael Batchelder (aka Binky), to discuss a DNS-related service disruption that affected users trying to access Amazon.com. We also talk about a recently discovered DNS vulnerability that could leave DNS providers susceptible to DNS amplification DDoS attacks.…
Welcome back to the Internet Report! On this week’s episode, we cover our usual check-up of ISPs, cloud and collaboration app outages, and discuss several major middle-of-the-night outages that affected services from providers such as Google and Virgin Media—proving, definitively, that outages never sleep. We’re also joined by TeleGeography’s Alan…
Never a dull minute on the Internet! In today’s episode, Archana and I dove into a YouTube service disruption and an (unrelated!) Google network issue in India. We also discussed Slack’s explanation of their service disruption last week and even talked through a case out of France where an education…
Modern workplaces are evolving with shifting expectations of both employers and employees. Enterprises are focused on aligning employee and business needs, and they are using technology to boost productivity and increase engagement. VDI is one such technology that is seeing rapid adoption, with the current COVID-19 situation accelerating it. VDI…