CHICAGO – Much of the world woke up Friday to news of the major software issue that sidelines flights, disrupted healthcare systems and delayed banking.The outage was linked to a cybersecurity firm called Crowdstrike that services Microsoft. While much of the problem seemed to be resolved by the late afternoon, several Chicago companies experienced a lot of grief because of the outages.
'The biggest fear was that shipments and goods were going to be held up at shippers where drivers, for example, are not going to be able to get their bill of ladings or a pick-up number,' said Blake Rowley, Traffic Tech's vice president of pricing.Quick work by Traffic Tech's IT experts minimized disruptions. The team got some love on social media for their efforts, which involved manually fixing more than 100 computers in about six hours.