Outage stories - Page 2
Two key ways to prevent data centre outages
Fri, 5th Jul 2019
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edge computing
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outage
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modular data centre
Power loss is still causing significant problems within the industry, according to more than 1600 operators and IT practitioners surveyed.
Protecting data centres from fire – your options
Thu, 21st Mar 2019
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hyperscale
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dc
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fire
Chubb's Pierre Thorne discusses the countless potential implications of a data centre outage, and how to avoid them.
Azure outage postmortem: Microsoft reveals what happened and why
Wed, 12th Sep 2018
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devops
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.
NAB apologises after nationwide systems outage
Mon, 28th May 2018
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datacentre infrastructure
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fintech
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power / energy
NAB apologises for a nationwide technology outage that left customers unable to access banking services for nearly five hours on Saturday due to a power issue.
Anatomy of an outage: Understanding the lifecycle of downtime
Thu, 19th Apr 2018
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dr
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cloud services
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business continuity
Businesses face high costs and risks with outages, impacting operations and reputation; understanding all stages is key.
Australian law firm builds hybrid cloud strategy on Nutanix OS
Fri, 6th Apr 2018
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devops
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hybrid cloud
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converged infrastructure
WA law firm Jackson McDonald teams with Nutanix for hybrid cloud shift, boosts IT agility and client services.
Chaos in the cloud: Majority of organisations moving to the cloud aren't prepared for an outage
Mon, 19th Mar 2018
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dr
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multi-cloud
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cloud services
The majority of organizations moving to the cloud are unprepared for a cloud outage, according to a new study by Veritas.
Amazon's AWS S3 suffers failure - Slack, Medium and Quora all affected
Wed, 1st Mar 2017
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storage
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Major outage strikes Amazon's AWS, leading to widespread disruption for Slack, Medium, and Quora among others.
UPDATED: Vodafone internet down around New Zealand, customers want answers
Thu, 28th Jan 2016
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uc
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wireless networks
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cloud services
Vodafone NZ internet is down around the country, and with no word from the company, customers have turned to Facebook to share their thoughts.
DDos dramatically increasing cause of data center outages
Tue, 26th Jan 2016
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ddos
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalating.
Vodafone network down and out
Thu, 16th Apr 2015
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uc
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customers
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telco
Customers nationwide using the 2G, 3G and 4G network may be having difficulty making and receiving calls, TXTs and using data.
Vodafone fibre cut, call centres down around the country
Mon, 16th Feb 2015
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uc
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telco
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contact centre
Vodafone is experiencing an unexpected fibre cut in Auckland, Penrose, and says this is impacting Vodafone call centres nationwide.
Telecom fixes NZ-wide fault
Tue, 11th Dec 2012
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uc
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customers
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telco
Telecom resolves major broadband outage that left 200,000 customers offline; service restored but some may still face issues with reconnecting.
Google faces enquiry over undeleted data
Mon, 30th Jul 2012
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data privacy
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google
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street view
Following the global outage of Google Talk, the internet search engine is under investigation after admitting failing to delete private user information.
NZNET trouble - we dig deeper
Thu, 27th Oct 2011
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edge computing
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customers
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vector
Tales of court action, shareholder disagreements, employment disputes and frozen bank accounts for local ISP and hosting company.
Vodafone network outage - Updated
Tue, 4th Oct 2011
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uc
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telco
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outage
Vodafone has posted a notice on its online forum saying some users may currently be unable to browse the internet.
Attempted upgrade shuts down 14 govt sites - Updated
Wed, 28th Sep 2011
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government
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outage
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consumers
A number of government websites including the Companies Office and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs have suffered a major technology issue.
Office 365 suffers outage - Updated
Thu, 18th Aug 2011
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microsoft
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twitter
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microsoft office
The outages are frustrating for technology companies trying to convince IT professionals that cloud services are reliable.
PSN restoration begins
Wed, 1st Jun 2011
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gaming
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encryption
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digital entertainment
Sony’s PlayStation Network is on the road to recovery after hackers compromised it, causing a nearly month-long outage.
Cloud outages result in Amazon apology
Tue, 3rd May 2011
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datacentre infrastructure
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amazon
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bbc
Amazon apologises and explains the large scale outages in its cloud hosting service that disrupted high traffic websites across the net.