• 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

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