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Salesforce.com Hit by One Hour Outage
January 4th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Enterprise cloud computing provider Salesforce.com (CRM) says it has resolved an outage that knocked all of its services offline for about an hour and 15 minutes this afternoon. Read More
Technician Injured in Peer 1 Power Outage
December 30th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Colocation provider Peer 1 said a technician was injured during an incident Wednesday night that knocked out power at its data center at 151 Front Street in Toronto. Read More
DNS Issues Cause Downtime for Major Sites
December 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
Many major sites experienced downtime Wednesday night due to problems with DNS services. The issues, which affected Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services and Wal-Mart were tied to reports of an electronic attack on UltraDNS. Read More
Blackberry Network Recovering After Major Outage
December 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
A major national network outage at Research in Motion (RIMM) left millions of Blackberry users without access to e-mail for at least eight hours, apparently due to "emergency maintenance" on the Blackberry network. The outage highlight's RIM's ongoing effort to add data centers to expand its network capacity and redundancy. Read More
Network Issue Cited in Rackspace Outage
December 18th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Rackspace says a network peering problem caused a lengthy outage this afternoon that affected many sites using its Cloud Sites cloud computing service. The outage affected sites at the company's Dallas data center, but Rackspace said the peering issue originated outside its facility. Read More
Major Data Center Outages of 2009
December 16th, 2009 : Rich Miller
It's hard to say whether data center outages were more frequent in 2009 than in the past. But they were certainly more visible, as round-the-clock consumption of blogs and social networks made downtime harder to hide. Here's a look at 10 major data center outages of 2009 Read More
’100% Data Loss’ for Coding Horror Site
December 11th, 2009 : Rich Miller
The popular programmer blog Coding Horror has experienced a "100 percent data loss" and is seeking to restore its content from search engine caches. Read More
'100% Data Loss' for Coding Horror Site
December 11th, 2009 : Rich Miller
The popular programmer blog Coding Horror has experienced a "100 percent data loss" and is seeking to restore its content from search engine caches. Read More
Brief Power Outage for Amazon Data Center
December 10th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Amazon Web Services experienced an outage in one of the East Coast availability zones for its EC2 service early Wednesday due to power problems in a data center in northern Virginia. Read More