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Best Practice Checklist When You Have an IT Outage

Posted by MHO Networks on Jul 11, 2023 10:00:00 AM

We’ve all experienced outages with our technology. Whether it is the hardware, software, network, or the power grid, any number of things can cause issues that substantially impact business. This is why your company needs a network outage checklist handy when the system goes down. 

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Topics: Connectivity, Network Requirements, Network Outages

Are the Costs of Downtime Increasing?

Posted by MHO Networks on Jun 20, 2023 9:22:00 AM

Every business owner is concerned about downtime. Just a few prominent examples show you why: 

  • In March 2015, a 12-hour Apple store outage cost the company $25 million
  • In August 2016, a five-hour power outage in an operation center caused 2,000 canceled flights and an estimated loss of $150 million for Delta Airlines.
  • In March 2019, a 14-hour outage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million
  • A one-hour outage cost Amazon an estimated $34 million in sales in 2021.
  • A 20-minute crash during 2021's Singles' Day sales cost Alibaba billions.
  • Facebook's 2021 outage cost Meta nearly $100 million in revenue.
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Topics: Downtime, Customer Experience, Productivity, Network Efficiency, Reliability, IT Planning, Network Outages

How to Prevent a Collapse like Ticketmaster had in Capacity Planning

Posted by MHO Networks on Dec 7, 2022 12:56:41 PM

By now, everyone has heard about the Ticketmaster fiasco with Taylor Swift concert ticket sales. On November 14, Ticketmaster opened a Verified Fan presale registration, allowing registered Taylor Swift fans to buy tickets before general sales opened. Approximately 1.5 million fans were pre-selected at random, leaving out about 2 million others who had already registered. 

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Topics: Network Access, Network Outages, Capacity Planning

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