The company said investigations so far show the malicious software wasn’t used to attack others and didn’t impact customer data or outward-facing systems.
Ellison said demand from large clients for infrastructure cloud services outstripped supply in the last quarter, so the company is scurrying to expand data centers.
The hardware failure at Equinix's NY5 data center in New Jersey is just the latest example of online brokerage outages caused by a sharp increase in small stock orders.