How Toyota ran out of disk space and shut down its factories

How Toyota ran out of disk space and shut down its factories

Toyota, the world's largest automaker, faced a major production disruption last month when it had to shut down all its 14 factories in Japan due to a system malfunction caused by insufficient disk space. The problem occurred when some servers that process parts orders became unavailable after a maintenance procedure on August 27. The backup…

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