Sabotage is suspected in a widespread telecom outage in Santa Clara, Calif., which is affecting land lines, cell phones, 911 services and some web sites.
Over the past week, there have been a series of electronic attacks on major Internet web hosts and domain service providers, disrupting tens of thousands of web sites.
Carbonite CEO Dave Friend has supplied additional information about the company's recent lawsuit against a vendor, in which the company disclosed that it had lost customer data.
Carbonite CEO Dave Friend has supplied additional information about the company's recent lawsuit against a vendor, in which the company disclosed that it had lost customer data.
Outage-driven chatter on social media sites is a lot like Internet traffic spikes: it can occur quickly, and overwhelm the available resources. The challenge: support staff are not like cloud computing clusters.
Who fixes undersea cables when they break? A fascinating look at the specialized work of submarine operators who find and repair telecommunications cables.
The new Reserved Instance pricing model for EC2 has interesting implications for Amazon's data center infrastructure. (AMZN)
Microsoft's Hotmail service has been unavailable today. Microsoft has acknowledged the problems, and says it's working to resolve the issue.
DataChambers said this week that the Premier healthcare alliance has expanded its multi-year contract for disaster recovery and business continuity services in DataChambers' facility in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Media Temple will issue $100,000 in service credits to 3,000 of customers affected by a major outage of its (gs) Grid-Service hosting service. Some customers were offline for as long as 38 hours.