CrowdStrike’s massive outage this summer had a big influence on IT leaders’ thinking. The lesson: Stay vigilant about maintaining operational resilience.
Cockroach Labs added essential data to the storyline, with the release of a powerful new survey that highlights the true cost of downtime. 1,000 IT executives worldwide weighed in for "The State of Resilience 2025: Confronting Outages, Downtime, and Organizational Readiness,” helping to underscore the financial impact of being ready for disruptions.
MES Computing: Report Highlights IT Leaders’ Resiliency Worries, Plans Since CrowdStrike Outage
IT decision makers are worried about the level of preparedness at their enterprises, with a vast majority of them acknowledging high costs and delays in essential work when outages strike. As MES Computing’s Samara Lynn notes, Cockroach Labs’ recent “State of Resilience” report reveals that 94% of tech executives are reassessing their organization's resilience strategies after the July CrowdStrike outage. Key challenges Lynn cited include:
resistance to change
outdated systems
a need for robust IT resilience plans to mitigate financial and operational risks
Yahoo! Finance: Cockroach Labs Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Modernization and GenAI Adoption
At Cockroach Labs, our partnerships are extremely important to us – we work with an incredible partner ecosystem, who help us to deliver the best possible customer experiences and outcomes for CockroachDB users. Now we’ve leveled up with one of the top cloud service providers, AWS. As seen in Yahoo Finance, Cockroach Labs has entered a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate modernization and generative AI adoption. This partnership includes significant investments in sales, marketing, technology integrations, and commercial programs, focusing on:
legacy database modernization
cloud migrations
industry-specific solutions
enterprise-grade generative AI capabilities
Cloud Database Report: Cockroach Labs and the Resiliency Experience
John Foley’s newsletter, Cloud Database Report, covers data and data management. While attending RoachFest24 in New York City, Foley interviewed Cockroach Labs Co-Founder and CEO Spencer Kimball, where operational resiliency emerged once again as the hot topic. Kimball said, “Anything that can go wrong, does go wrong. You simply have to assume a constant rate of breakage, and then design extremely redundant systems.” Other article highlights include:
How CockroachDB is designed to withstand failures and ensure continuous availability
The role of CockroachDB's distributed nature and self-healing capabilities in protecting businesses against downtime, even during unexpected disruptions
There’s much more Cockroach Labs news across the Internet, including coverage at Channel Insider, ITDigest, BigDataWire, and more – join us soon for the next news recap.
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