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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