'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
    401·
    5 months ago

    Marginal? You must be joking. A vast amount of servers run on Windows Server. Where I work alone we have several hundred and many companies have a similar setup. Statista put the Windows Server OS market share over 70% in 2019. While I find it hard to believe it would be that high, it does clearly indicate it’s most certainly not a marginal percentage.

    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      5 months ago

      I’m not getting an account on Statista, and I agree that its marketshare isn’t “marginal” in practice, but something is up with those figures, since overwhelmingly internet hosted services are on top of Linux. Internal servers may be a bit different, but “servers” I’d expect to count internet servers…

      • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        It’s stated in the synopsis, below where it says you need to pay for the article. Anyway, it might be true as the hosting servers themselves often host up to hundreds of Windows machines. But it really depends on what is measured and the method used, which we don’t know because who the hell has a statista account anyway.

        • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          There are a ton of Internet facing servers, vast majority of cloud instances, and every cloud provider except Microsoft (and their in house “windows” for azure hosting is somehow different, though they aren’t public about it).

          In terms of on premise servers, I’d even say the HPC groups may outnumber internal windows servers. While relatively fewer instances, they all represent racks and racks of servers, and that market is 100% Linux.

          I know a couple of retailers and at least two game studios are keeping at scale windows a thing, but Linux mostly dominates my experience of large scale deployment in on premise scale out.

          It just seems like Linux is just so likely for scenarios that also have lots of horizontal scaling, it is hard to imagine that despite that windows still being a majority share of the market when all is said and done, when it’s usually deployed in smaller quantities in any given place.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        since overwhelmingly internet hosted services are on top of Linux

        This is a common misconception. Most internet hosted services are behind a Linux box, but that doesn’t mean those services actually run on Linux.