Many service providers experience outages, causing downtime for hosting firms and customer websites.

New execs find equity funding to support their plan for the next stage of growth.

Most likely damage by one of the sophisticated cyber-espionage group's attacks would be caused by a prolonged utility grid outage

Outage attributed to directory failure which triggered a wide-scale outage caused by previously unknown flaw in code

With service down for a full work day, many customers take to a message board to vent frustrations

Data center designers have generally gotten reliability right ... except for that rare occasion when a truck runs into a power transformer or a ship drops an anchor onto a submarine cable.

The Uptime Institute finds that availability is the number-one data center provider selection criterion. More than 20 percent of respondents to a recent survey said they had an outage with their colocation provider over a recent 12-month period.

A major fire at a Samsung data center in Gwacheon, South Korea Sunday morning caused a data outage for users Samsung devices, including smart TVs, phones and tablets.

The streaming service crashed just after 9 p.m. last night, just as millions of users were tuning in for the eagerly-awaited premiere of season 4 of "Game of Thrones."