• Massive Flooding Damages Several NYC Data Centers

    October 30th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Flooding from Hurricane Sandy has hobbled two data center buildings in Lower Manhattan, taking out diesel fuel pumps used to refuel generators. There were also reports of outages for some tenants at a major data hub at 111 8th Avenue, and many other New York area facilities were running on generator power amid widespread utility outages. Read More

  • Software Bug, Cascading Failures Caused Amazon Outage

    October 27th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    A software bug in a data collection agent for Amazon's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) system triggered last Monday's service outage for many services running on Amazon Web Services, the company said today. Read More

  • Equinix is Latest to Adapt Ground Water for Cooling

    October 26th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Equinix has become the latest company to use Mother Nature as its chiller, tapping ground water in an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system in its new Amsterdam data center. Read More

  • Amazon Cloud Outage KOs Reddit, Foursquare & Others

    October 22nd, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Amazon Web Services is experiencing another outage, and as in the case with earlier incidents, the cloud computing giant's performance woes are rippling across the Internet. Read More

  • Cable Cut in Midwest Hobbles Alaska Airlines

    October 8th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    In an incident that underscores the sometime unlikely ripples from local events, a fiber cut on a Sprint cable in Wisconsin severed Alaska Airlines' connection to Sabre, the system the airline uses for reservations and ticketing. Read More

  • Go Daddy: Network Issues, Not Hackers or DDoS, Caused Outage

    September 11th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Go Daddy says yesterday's downtime, which caused extensive downtime for customers, was caused by corrupted data in router tables, rather than an external attack or hack. Read More

  • Go Daddy Outage Causes Widespread Downtime

    September 10th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Domain registrar Go Daddy is experiencing a major domain name service (DNS) outage, which is impairing access to many customer web sites. Go Daddy manages 52 million domain names, meaning a DNS outage could affect millions of web sites across the Internet. Read More

  • Repairs Force Seattle Data Center Offline for 5 Days

    August 27th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    The city of Seattle will turn off many public services for five days over Labor Day weekend so it can repair the power system supporting its primary data center, Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn said Thursday. Read More

  • Fiber Cut Knocks Wikipedia Offline

    August 7th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Wikipedia experienced a one-hour outage early Monday when it lost network connectivity due to a fiber cut between its data centers in Tampa and Ashburn, Virginia. Despite its low-budget approach to supporting one of the world's busiest sites, the Wikimedia Foundation has worked to make its network's infrastructure more reliable. Read More

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