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Power Surge KOs Washington State Data Center
September 7th, 2011 : Rich Miller
A power surge crashed the state' of Washington's s primary data center in Olympia last month, according to local media reports. The Aug. 21 outage occurred as a new high-voltage power line was being added to expand the power capacity of the office campus. Read More
Fiber Cut Oddities: Land Sharks, Squirrels, Planes
August 11th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Level 3 provides an entertaining overview of offbeat causes of fiber cuts and curiosities employees have encountered during repairs, including squirrels, sharks, trucks, backhoes and even low-flying planes. Read More
Power Outage at Colo4 Data Center
August 11th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Colocation provider Colo4 experienced a power outage at one of its Dallas data centers Wednesday night after an automatic transfer switch failed on one of the facility's utility feeds. The incident resulted in approximately six hours of downtime for affected customers. Read More
Dublin Utility: Power Outage Not Caused by Lightning Strike
August 10th, 2011 : Rich Miller
The local power company in Dublin, Ireland now says a lighting strike was not the cause of the utility power outage that triggered downtime for major data centers operated by Amazon and Microsoft. The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) said the cause of the outage remained under investigation, but it had now ruled out lightning. Read More
Lightning vs. Data Centers
August 9th, 2011 : Rich Miller
The outages for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin represent one of the most serious downtime incidents tied to lightning strikes. Although data centers routinely ride out thunderstorms and utility outages without incident, lightning strikes have figured in a number of past outages. Here's a review, and links that can help prepare your facility for lightning storms. Read More
Outage in Dublin Knocks Amazon, Microsoft Data Centers Offline
August 7th, 2011 : Rich Miller
A utility outage has caused power outages at the major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. The incident has led to extended downtime for some Amazon users, with Microsoft recovering more quickly. Read More
Downtime: Hostway, Telecity
July 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Data center power outages cause downtime for customers of Hostway and TelecityGroup. Read More
Aberdeen Research: Quantifying Downtime
June 21st, 2011 : Kevin Normandeau
With limited budgets and so many initiatives how do you request money for disaster recovery? You will find an answer in this Aberdeen Research entitled "Data center Downtime, How Much Does It Really Cost?," which is enlightening in several respects. Read More
Go Daddy: Software Update Caused Outage
June 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller
The main web site for the world's largest domain registrar and web host, Go Daddy, was offline for approximately three hours Monday evening after a software update went awry, the company said. Read More