Many major sites experienced downtime Wednesday night due to problems with DNS services. The issues, which affected Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services and Wal-Mart were tied to reports of an electronic attack on UltraDNS.
A major national network outage at Research in Motion (RIMM) left millions of Blackberry users without access to e-mail for at least eight hours, apparently due to "emergency maintenance" on the Blackberry network. The outage highlight's RIM's...
Rackspace says a network peering problem caused a lengthy outage this afternoon that affected many sites using its Cloud Sites cloud computing service. The outage affected sites at the company's Dallas data center, but Rackspace said the peering...
It's hard to say whether data center outages were more frequent in 2009 than in the past. But they were certainly more visible, as round-the-clock consumption of blogs and social networks made downtime harder to hide. Here's a look at 10 major da...
The popular programmer blog Coding Horror has experienced a "100 percent data loss" and is seeking to restore its content from search engine caches.
The popular programmer blog Coding Horror has experienced a "100 percent data loss" and is seeking to restore its content from search engine caches.