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.
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.
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.
US Airways says a nationwide disruption of its computer systems Friday afternoon was caused by a power outage affecting one of the company's data center facilities near Phoenix.
The web site of Family Radio, which has predicted that the "Rapture" of Christian believers will take place at 6 p.m. today, is currently unreachable for many Internet users. The web site's performance problems came as time zones in New Zealand...
It's been a rough couple days for uptime, with major outages for Microsoft's Exchange Online services, Google's free Blogger hosting platform, and Twitter.
Internet traffic in North America spiked sharply Sunday night as users tracked news that the U.S. military had found and killed Al Qaeda leader Osma bin Laden, but fell short of record traffic levels due to the timing of the announcement.
Last week's lengthy outage for the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform was caused by a network configuration error as Amazon was attempting to upgrade capacity on its network. Amazon today published a an incident report in which it...