Major flooding at a BT exchange in the Paddington section of London has disrupted telecom service and payment networks in parts of London, and the company says it may be days before it can fully restore service.
Wikipedia was offline for several hours yesterday after a cooling problem in Wikimedia's European data center led to a heat condition that caused a server shutdown. A DNS problem during failover caused additional downtime.
NaviSite says it will overhaul the surge suppression system at its San Jose, Calif. data center in the wake of last week's power outage at the facility, which left customers offline for about 45 minutes..
The University of Pennsylvania had to shut off the IT systems supporting the school's financial, research and student services after its data center overheated Tuesday afternoon.
A NaviSite data center in Silicon Valley was without power for an hour this morning after severe storms knocked out the facility's utility feed from PG&E.
A UPS failure caused a power outage today at a Rackspace (RAX) data center in London, leaving several hundred servers offline for hours as technicians needed to help restarting equipment.