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They are too big to fail. Many very large companies with significant seat numbers use them, and for these companies its too expensive to switch.This is such a massive screw up. Gonna be tough for crowdstrike to recover.
Maybe the threads were merged?You've linked this same Shroudreich thread!
This is turning into a Benedryl Cabbagepatch meme thread...You've linked this same Shroudreich thread!
You leave Benzedrine Cloacalsplotch out of this!This is turning into a Benedryl Cabbagepatch meme thread...
They are too big to fail. Many very large companies with significant seat numbers use them, and for these companies its too expensive to switch.
From my understanding this has happened a number of times in the past... - and the first comment in that thread point to an earlier event.I mean it won't be immediate, but this will tarnish them when it comes time to re-up.
I hope more will do the same 👍As I'm currently employed by one of those impacted companies, there are already discussions about comparing our loss vs a change of vendor.
Nah... fix is easy but perhaps tedious.So this is Y2K? Their predictions were 24 years too early?
I just got free groceries at Woolworths [major supermarket chain here] as they couldn’t accept my gift card payment.
They asked if I had another way to pay. I said yes, but you have sold me this gift card and I would like to use it.
Modern-era antivirus, uses a lot of machine learning to understand what's actually happening on a system vs what's supposed to, and stop stuff that isn't supposed to.For the IT uninitiated what does Crowdstrike do?
I guess tedious is one way to describe 'get hands on every workstation, and if you were smart enough to have bitlocker, get recovery keys for every workstation' then yes it's tedious.Nah... fix is easy but perhaps tedious.
DCs are probably dead, the ones you can log into are likely cached credentials. Try pinging your domain name and see if something comes back.Pretty sure they cloud-i-fied our network drives a year or two back, which would explain why they are all down. About half the computers can't log in at all, the other half can. Can't figure out the rhyme or reason why some work and others don't.
Sorry I misspoke, the reason the other half can't log on is they are blue screened. Seems bad!DCs are probably dead, the ones you can log into are likely cached credentials. Try pinging your domain name and see if something comes back.
It won't go out of business, but they may take a hit.There really is a meme for everything:
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Anyhow, over/under on Crowdstrike goes out of business or crowdstrike is too big to fail?
It's specific to Microsoft software being affected by the update.There was also an azure outage right before that.
Some people were confusing the 2