The Rogers Outage: What can MSPs and their customers do to ensure service continuity?

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The Rogers Outage: What can MSPs and their customers do to ensure service continuity?

On Friday, July 8, beginning at 4:44 am EDT, Rogers Communications, Canada’s largest mobile and internet provider, suffered a catastrophic outage. More than 11 million customers including banks, ATMs, managed service providers, hospitals and emergency service hotlines were impacted. One SMB customer, impacted for 2 days by the outage, asked their MSP some hard questions. Follow the conversation and engage in the discussion as to what the customer and the vendor could do differently in the future.

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How Has Your Organization Managed Supply Chain and Other Top Risks? Tell DRI in This Quick Survey!

Resilience professionals have no shortage of challenges — extreme weather, cyber attacks, the continuing supply chain crisis, to name a few. Take this short survey to let DRI International know what’s at the top of your list.

Your replies are a critical component of the DRI Future Vision Committee’s upcoming 8th annual Trends and Predictions Reports. Each year, these reports document the risks faced by the resilience community, and how they may evolve. Both the industry and the media use these reports to gain key insights and analysis of the global factors that are shaping the industry, what to expect, and how to prepare.

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