Following several days of hints and rumors, Microsoft has confirmed that it has resurrected most of the Sidekick user data that was believed to be lost. Microsoft says it now believes the data loss "affected a minority of Sidekick users."
After initially warning Sidekick users that there was an "extremely low" chance their personal data could be recovered, T-Mobile now reports that Microsoft has made progress in its efforts to restore data from backups.
A domain name system error knocked Sweden's top-level domain offline for more than an hour last night, once again illustrating how small errors in DNS settings can have huge impacts in the real world.
A domain name system error knocked Sweden's top-level domain offline for more than an hour last night, once again illustrating how small errors in DNS settings can have huge impacts in the real world.
Does the Sidekick data loss reflect on the reliability of cloud computing? Or is the cloud being scapegoated for a different kind of problem? Pundits are split on the cloud's culpability.
A generator failure Sunday at an IBM data center in Auckland, New Zealand crippled key services for Air New Zealand, prompting the airline's CEO to publicly chastise Big Blue for the failure.
T-Mobile is telling all users of its popular Sidekick mobile that all of their data has been lost, and is blaming a server failure at Microsoft's Danger subsidiary.
A recent critique of the data center Tier System by Digital Realty Trust has prompted a public response from the Uptime Institute, which created the tier systems.
A major power outage that disrupted data centers at Seattle's Fisher Plaza in July was probably caused by an insulation failure in an electrical bus duct that connected the building to the power grid, according to a forensic report.
Twitter has been the target of additional denial of service attacks in the wake of a major outage on Aug. 6, but enhanced defenses implemented by Twitter and NTT America have helped minimize their impact.