A cheap 15‑year‑old piece of hardware broke Telstra. It’s a wake‑up call for other businesses

Telstra's recent national outage should be a lesson to any business with legacy systems: skip upgrades and maintenance at your peril.

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Headofthebored@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 39d (1 reply)

Moving to unknown problems from problems that have been documented and solved and are sometimes even predictable is not necessarily an improvement.

And that is why we will never do maintenance, ever. Raises too many questions.