Enterprise cloud computing provider Salesforce.com (CRM) says it has resolved an outage that knocked all of its services offline for about an hour and 15 minutes this afternoon.
Colocation provider Peer 1 said a technician was injured during an incident Wednesday night that knocked out power at its data center at 151 Front Street in Toronto.
Many major sites experienced downtime Wednesday night due to problems with DNS services. The issues, which affected Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services and Wal-Mart were tied to reports of an electronic attack on UltraDNS.
A major national network outage at Research in Motion (RIMM) left millions of Blackberry users without access to e-mail for at least eight hours, apparently due to "emergency maintenance" on the Blackberry network. The outage highlight's RIM's...
Rackspace says a network peering problem caused a lengthy outage this afternoon that affected many sites using its Cloud Sites cloud computing service. The outage affected sites at the company's Dallas data center, but Rackspace said the peering...
It's hard to say whether data center outages were more frequent in 2009 than in the past. But they were certainly more visible, as round-the-clock consumption of blogs and social networks made downtime harder to hide. Here's a look at 10 major da...
Amazon Web Services experienced an outage in one of the East Coast availability zones for its EC2 service early Wednesday due to power problems in a data center in northern Virginia.