TechFlash has photos of the fire damage inside an electrical room at Seattle's Fisher Plaza. The fire Thursday night left data centers in the building without power for more than a day.
A fire at the 1`51 Front Street carrier hotel in Toronto left several data center customers offline for hours over the weekend. Peer 1 Networks reported that a fire broke out at 2:26 a.m. Sunday (Eastern time) in an eighth-floor electrical room.
Last week was a brutal one for the data center industry, with high-profile outages for several companies with strong reputations for uptime, and a fire at a data center complex. Here's a look at what happened, and the fallout and lessons learned.
Many sites hosted at Seattle's Fisher Plaza are offline amid widespread reports of a fire at the facility. That includes the payment portal Authorize.net, disrupting e-commerce at many web sites.
Equinix data centers in Paris and Sydney, Australia have experienced power outages this morning, according to widespread reports from affected customers.
Advertising networks and widgets are being cited as the key factors in the performance problems exerienced by major news sites during the crush of Internet traffic Thursday as news broke about the death of pop star Michael Jackson.
News sites and social media posting the earliest reports of the death of pop star Michael Jackson experienced availability problems as web users around the world sought to confirm the news