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Syria Cut Off From the Internet
May 7th, 2013 : Rich Miller
The war-torn country of Syria effectively disappeared from the Internet Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple monitoring services. Read More
Michigan County Offline After Data Center Fire
April 19th, 2013 : Rich Miller
IT services in Macomb County, Michigan are offline after a fire damaged the building that houses the county's data center. Macomb County, which is just west of Detroit and has 850,000 resident, did not have a backup data center. Read More
With Offices Closed, Boston Firms Implement Disaster Plans
April 16th, 2013 : Rich Miller
A handful of Boston-based companies have implemented disaster recovery plans with SunGard Availability Services, primarily due to access restrictions as the FBI and Boston police investigate Monday's terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon. Read More
IT Woes Ground American Airlines Flights
April 16th, 2013 : Rich Miller
An outage in a key reservations system has grounded all flights at American Airlines this afternoon, leaving passengers and gate agents unable to manage bookings or print boarding passes and causing backups at airports in many areas of the country. Read More
Power Outage Knocks DreamHost Customers Offline
March 20th, 2013 : Rich Miller
Web hosting provider DreamHost experienced an extended outages when power systems failed at its data center in Irvine, Calif. The incident created hours of downtime across Tuesday and Wednesday for many of DreamHost's more than 350,000 customers. Read More
Heat Spike in Data Center Caused Hotmail Outage
March 14th, 2013 : Rich Miller
The Hotmail servers got entirely too hot Tuesday, causing a major outage for Microsoft's web-based email services. Both Hotmail and Outlook.com were offline for up to 16 hours after a failed software update caused the heat to spike in one part of a data center supporting those services. Read More
Windows Azure Cloud Crashed by Expired SSL Certificate
February 25th, 2013 : Rich Miller
How did an expired SSL certificate crash the Windows Azure storage cloud computing platform Friday and Saturday? It's an expensive question for Microsoft, which is offering service credits to users. Read More
Super Bowl Outage Blamed on Faulty Relay Device
February 8th, 2013 : Rich Miller
The power outage that interrupted last Sunday's Super Bowl was caused by a malfunction in an electrical relay device, according to Entergy New Orleans, the utility supporting the SuperDome in New Orleans. Read More
Superdome Infrastructure Eyed in Super Bowl Power Loss
February 4th, 2013 : Rich Miller
The power loss during the Super Bowl is being blamed on an unspecified "abnormality" in electrical load at the point where utility feeder lines enter the Superdome. The feeder system to the stadium was reportedly upgraded in December. Read More