• Warm Weather Clobbers Climate Data Archive

    March 22nd, 2012 : Rich Miller

    The unseasonably warm weather across much of the country has meteorologists and weather enthusiasts searching for precedents - and doing so in large enough numbers that it caused an outage for a leading repository of historic weather data. Read More

  • Amazon EC2 Recovers After Brief Downtime

    March 15th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service is back online after a brief outage earlier this morning that affected customers in its US-East region. Read More

  • Microsoft Offers Credit for Azure Cloud Outage

    March 12th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Microsoft has offered a service credit for customers of its Windows Azure cloud computing service in the wake of an extended outage on Feb. 29 due to a Leap Year date issue. Read More

  • Windows Azure Cloud Hit By Downtime

    February 29th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service has been hit with a series of performance problems today, leaving customers unable to manage their applications for about 8 hours and knocking Azure-based services offline for some North American users. Read More

  • Anticipating The Perfect Storm of Impossible Events

    February 20th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Jesse Robbins of Opscode says that resiliency is a function of culture, as well as engineering. "You cannot learn the lessons of failure without experiencing it," said Robbins. That's can be difficult message for IT operations team that view downtime as an enemy to be avoided at all costs. Read More

  • Equinix Outage Means Downtime for Zoho

    January 20th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    A power outage Friday morning in an Equinix data center in California caused downtime for a number of customers, most notably Zoho, which experienced hours of downtime for several of its web-based office applications. Read More

  • Strong Online Retail Lead-In for Cyber Monday

    November 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    Today is Cyber Monday, and all the trends suggest solid growth in online retail activity over the Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday. Here's our roundup of holiday retail data, featuring data on e-commerce activity seen by Akamai, IBM and Paypal. Read More

  • Minimize Downtime with Proper Management

    October 27th, 2011 : Kevin Normandeau

    In “Strategies for Minimizing Downtime by Managing Change,” Sungard makes a case that the best disaster recovery plans are often well conceived but poorly nurtured. The reason is a lack of resources. This whitepaper uses statistical data from a Forrester research study to prove the point that only a small percentage of organizations adhere to the proper standard of annual testing and continual updates of their disaster recovery strategy. Read More

  • RIM: We May Boost Infrastructure for Blackberry

    October 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller

    It's been a brutal week of outages for Blackberry users. Here's a roundup of notable stories that examine how the outage may have happened, and why it took RIM's network so long to recover: Read More

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