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Another Outage for FlexiScale Cloud Storage

Posted By Rich Miller On October 30, 2008 @ 9:49 am In Cloud Computing | 1 Comment

Cloud storage provider FlexiScale [1] has been hit with another lengthy service outage due to a “core network failure,” and some servers remained offline more than 18 hours after the incident began. FlexiScale, which is a unit of UK hosting company Excalibre,  was offline for several days [2] in August when an employee accidentally deleted one of the main storage volumes during a system upgrade.

The company is posting updates on a status page [3] on the Excalibre web site, which oddly doesn’t appear to be linked anywhere from the FlexiScale site. Customers aren’t happy [4]. (Link via ElasticVapor [5])

About Rich Miller [6]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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URLs in this post:

[1] FlexiScale: http://www.flexiscale.com/

[2] offline for several days: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/08/28/serious-cloud-storage-stumble-for-flexiscale/

[3] status page: http://www.xcalibre.co.uk/status/status.php

[4] aren’t happy: http://www.flexiscale.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3

[5] ElasticVapor: http://www.elasticvapor.com/2008/10/another-outage-for-flexiscale.html

[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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