Uptime Institute data shows that 80% of serious outages are preventable, with flawed procedures and management choices implicated far more often than hardware breakdowns. Treating operator error as the root cause stops an investigation too early, ignoring the systemic conditions that allowed the failure to happen. Effective root cause analysis traces past the immediate trigger to fix the underlying process: smbadvisor.management/root-caus…

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