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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
Communication Fail: Blackberry Down Again
October 11th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Just hours after recovering from an outage that lasted most of Monday, the Blackberry data network is offline again for many users in Europe and the Middle East. Read More
Massive Blackberry Outage Hits Europe
October 10th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Millions of Blackberry users across Europe have been unable to access their e-mail, instant messages or the Internet today in an outage that has lasted at least six hours. Read More
RightScale: Cloud Bursting Tames Traffic Spikes
October 7th, 2011 : Colleen Miller
Recent cloud outages have piqued the public interest. What's the solution? Hybrid clouds and cloud bursting can prevent downtime. "There is a lot of interest in hybrid clouds," said Mike Crandall, CEO of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based RightScale. Read More
Apple Traffic Crashes Live Blogs at Tech Sites
October 4th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Internet traffic for the Apple media event has simultaneously overwhelmed the infrastructure of many of the largest tech sites, crashing servers and interrupting efforts to live blog this afternoon's announcements of new iPhones Read More
San Diego’s AIS Rides Out Power Outage
September 9th, 2011 : Rich Miller
San Diego's leading data center service provider said its facilities remained online during a massive power outage Thursday that affected much of Southern California. Read More