When a service with 1.15 billion users is not working, what are users to do? The answer is to shift to Twitter and other social media sites and talk about the fact that Facebook is down. Many users have responded with humor rather than angst or...
The amazing thing isn't that systems like the healthcare.gov government web site can fail in spectacular fashion, says Dr. Richard Cook. It's that it doesn't happen more often. Cook, an expert on failures in complex systems, says it's human nature...
You don't know what you don't know, according to data center consultant David Boston. "No matter how well the data center is planned, we still find single points of failure in almost all assessments,” he said.
On Oct. 15, cloud storage provider Nirvanix will shut its doors, having run dry of funding. That leaves two weeks in which all the many petabytes of data stored on the Nirvanix cloud must find a new home.
There was another Amazon cloud outage this morning as the oldest AWS cloud computing region stuttered, reminding folks that if you heavily rely on that the US-EAST region, it's good to have contingency plans.
A power outage in a New Jersey state data center knocked out services for a number of state agencies, including the Motor Vehicle Commission and many state web sites.
It's back to school time, but the new school year got off to a rough start for two public school systems due to data center failures that crippled their IT systems...
Amazon says it has resolved issues that briefly caused downtime for its flagship Amazon.com retail sites, along with about 45 minutes of lost functionality for some of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) businesses.
If you were trying to use Outlook.com to email a link to a NYTimes.com story about events in Egypt, it's not been a good day. Both Microsoft and the New York Times have been trouble shooting service problems.
A Utah data center supporting some of the web hosting industry's best known brands has suffered a networking outage, causing an extended service outage. The problems at a Provo, Utah facility operated by Endurance International Group, have led to...