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...
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.
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...
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...
Amazon Web Services says that the failure of multiple generators in a single data center caused last Friday night's power outage, which led to downtime for Netflix, Instagram and many other popular web sites.
Computer problems with the Amadeus reservation system caused long lines and traveler delays at airports across Australia this weekend. The outage appears to be related to the "Leap Second Bug," as the addition of a single second to the world's...
An Amazon Web Services data center in northern Virginia lost power Friday night, causing extended downtime for services includng Netflix, Heroku, Pinterest and many others. The incident occurred as a powerful electrical storm struck the Washington...
Amazon Web Services is reporting more service problems this morning for some customers of its EC2 cloud computing service. Amazon has reported connectivity issues in its US-East-1 availability zone, the same zone which was hit by an outage earlier...
Last week's outage at Amazon Web Services was triggered by a series of failures in the power infrastructure in a northern Virginia data center, including the failure of a generator cooling fan while the facility was on emergency power.
A power outage at an Amazon Web Services data center in northern Virginia last night knocked some customers offline. Among the sites affected were Heroku, Pinterest, Quora and HootSuite, along with a host of smaller sites.