A "catastrophic failure" in the state of Oregon's government data center has delayed unemployment payments to residents, the state said Tuesday. The outage began Monday night during scheduled storage maintenance.
A massive rainstorm caused widespread flooding and power outages Monday night in Toronto, which created challenges for some tenants at the city's largest data center hub. 151 Front Street maintained power, but experienced problems with cooling...
IT services in Macomb County, Michigan are offline after a fire damaged the building that houses the county's data center. Macomb County, which is just west of Detroit and has 850,000 resident, did not have a backup data center.
A handful of Boston-based companies have implemented disaster recovery plans with SunGard Availability Services, primarily due to access restrictions as the FBI and Boston police investigate Monday's terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon.
An outage in a key reservations system has grounded all flights at American Airlines this afternoon, leaving passengers and gate agents unable to manage bookings or print boarding passes and causing backups at airports in many areas of the country.
Web hosting provider DreamHost experienced an extended outages when power systems failed at its data center in Irvine, Calif. The incident created hours of downtime across Tuesday and Wednesday for many of DreamHost's more than 350,000 customers.
The Hotmail servers got entirely too hot Tuesday, causing a major outage for Microsoft's web-based email services. Both Hotmail and Outlook.com were offline for up to 16 hours after a failed software update caused the heat to spike in one part of...
How did an expired SSL certificate crash the Windows Azure storage cloud computing platform Friday and Saturday? It's an expensive question for Microsoft, which is offering service credits to users.
The power outage that interrupted last Sunday's Super Bowl was caused by a malfunction in an electrical relay device, according to Entergy New Orleans, the utility supporting the SuperDome in New Orleans.