Month: July 2024

  • What is going on with your heart?

    July 22, 2024

    Video by Sam Han | Text by Ignacio Lobos | UW-IT Communications & Engagement In one of your commercial flights over the Cascade Mountains, between snacks, bathroom breaks and terrible romantic comedies, did you ever stop to think about the massive engineering feat that kept the engines running? Have you ever considered your own engine — reliably ticking away year after year? Patrick Boyle spends a lot of time thinking about the heart and the intricate electrical system that keeps…

  • CrowdStrike outage resolved

    July 19, 2024

    Several programmers looking at computer code.

    From the early hours of this morning, our UW-IT team has been monitoring and recovering the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage. Once it was determined that this was an international outage with no harmful intent, our incident management team assembled to manage communications and connectivity. We also reached out to the Computing Directors for updates and insights to ensure that all of our user segments were informed and aligned with expectations. The UW-IT availability issues are all resolved. SolarWinds, the software we use…