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Errant ‘Safety Valve’ Caused Windows Azure Outage
August 3rd, 2012 : Rich Miller
A feature designed to prevent network outages caused last week's downtime for the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Microsoft said yesterday as it released its root cause analysis of the incident. Read More
Human Error Cited in Hosting.com Outage
July 28th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Hosting.com said human error was responsible for a data center power outage that left more than 1,100 customers without service. The downtime occurred as the company was conducting preventive maintenance on a UPS system in the company's data center in Newark, Del. Read More
Microsoft: Misconfigured Network Device Caused Azure Outage
July 28th, 2012 : Rich Miller
A misconfigured network device caused Thursday's outage for the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Microsoft said Friday. The downtime left the Azure Compute service unavailable to cstomers in some parts of Europe for more than two hours. Read More
Windows Azure Hit by Cloud Outage in Europe
July 26th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform is experiencing a significant service outage in western Europe, the company said this morning. Azure compute services are largely unavailable for customers in the region. Read More
Brief Network Outage Impacts SoftLayer Customers
July 18th, 2012 : Rich Miller
A Seattle-area data center operated by SoftLayer lost Internet connectivity this afternoon, leaving customer sites offline for about 45 minutes. The data center never lost power and servers continued to run, but had no connectivity. Read More
Data Center Fire Disrupts Key Services in Calgary
July 16th, 2012 : Rich Miller
The city of Calgary is recovering from the impact of a data center fire that crippled city services and delayed hundreds of surgeries at local hospitals. The explosion and fire last Wednesday in a Shaw Communications facility knocked out both the primary and backup systems. Read More
Power Outage Hits London Data Center
July 10th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Customers of a Level 3 data center in London were knocked offline last by a UPS failure. The downtime knocked dozens of companies offline, according to The Register, which has details from the incident report. Read More
Major Outage for Salesforce.com
July 10th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Salesforce.com (CRM) is experiencing a significant outage today, leaving many customers unable to access the company's services. The disruption began just before 1 a.m. Pacific time, and Salesforce.com has been gradually restoring service throughout the day. Read More
Surviving Electric Squirrels and UPS Failures
July 9th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Folks who've worked in the data center industry for a while tend to have their squirrel stories. Mike Christian, who runs business continuity for Yahoo, shared his recently during a keynote at the recent O'Reilly Velocity conference in a presentation titled "Frying Squirrels and Unspun Gyros," which examined the many ways that data centers can fail. Read More