Top System Outages of 2009

Just like Santa's naughty roster, here's a list to avoid.  What strikes me first and foremost about these outages was how high profile they all were.  Each was a news event in itself that I'm sure kept the respective corporate public relations departments quite busy (note: if you're working in IT Operations and talking a lot to the PR folks, that's probably not a good thing). Seeing all of these high impact incidents listed together really emphasizes what's at stake when systems go down.

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[Chris]

I'm surprised the London Stock Exchange incident in September didn't make the cut. 7 hours of trading on a major exchange down the tube, so to speak. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10036286-62.html

I suppose there were many to choose from.

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