Outage
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Outages cost large firms US$288K
News update Over 90 percent of firms worldwide had to execute their disaster recovery plan last year, new report notes. Downtime in Asia costs US$150,000 on average.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, Service level management, Disaster Recovery, Plan, Asia, Virtual Environment, IT Professional, Disaster Recovery Planning, systems engineering
Google App Engine suffers outages
News Google's vaunted facility for hosting Web applications is experiencing problems. The company is "working hard" to track down the source and fix it.
Tags: Business applications, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Application, RFC, Outage, mailing list, programming language, Python, job
Tapping Twitter to monitor broadband outages
News Australian Internet access provider Telstra is using the microblogging service to monitor service interruptions and contact customers about support plans. Will its rivals follow suit?
Tags: Web 2.0, Twitter, Broadband, Optus, Outage, Telstra Corp., Internet Service Provider, managing director, Internet, monitor
PayPal suffers from e-commerce outage
News eBay's online payment system suffered outages for about two hours Monday, but the company says it's working for most people again.
Tags: Service level management, Web sites, E-commerce, E-business, PayPal, Web Page, eBay Inc., Online Payment, API, Outage
Pirate Bay suffers outage, site back up
News The controversial BitTorrent search engine goes down for at least three hours the day after the site's ISP reportedly cut off service.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Web 2.0, search engine, Site, CBS Interactive Inc., Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, entertainment, Internet Service, Pirate Bay
Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000
News Downed Facebook database left a small but vocal percentage of its userbase without access to the social network for as long as 10 days.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Facebook, Social Networking, Database, Phone, network, Web sites, Web 2.0, photograph
Lightning takes down Amazon cloud
News The latest disruption to a high-profile cloud-computing service follows outages from other providers, including Google and Salesforce.com.
Tags: Cloud computing, Virtualization, Google Inc., Xen, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, online retail company, software-as-a-service, data center
Cloudy outlook sees Microsoft take Exchange, SharePoint online
News Microsoft's launch of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) represents its latest assault on the cloud computing market.
Tags: Web services, Cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., business productivity, Cloud computing, Deskless Worker Suite, Worker, e-mail, Outage
Google networking error caused outage
News An effort to update networking addresses in its IPv6 shift didn't work out as planned Thursday, causing widespread service outages for about an hour.
Tags: Search, Web services, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage, accident, McAfee Inc., network, Internet Service Provider, Internet
London Stock Exchange recovers after outage
News Exchange is back to normal after a software problem halted trading for over seven hours Monday--effectively wiping a full day of buying and selling from the books.
Tags: Financial, London Stock Exchange Plc., software glitch, equity, London, Outage, software, Silicon.com, Financial, Thomson Reuters Corp.
AT&T joining cloud computing field
News AT&T is joining the burgeoning field of cloud computing service providers that offer networking and storage services.
Tags: Utility computing, Web services, Servers, Storage, Google Inc., Storage, Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage
Amazon's S3 faces outage
News Problems with online storage service causes many sites to present broken images.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Storage, Europe, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, software, online retail company, job, network
Amazon offers automatic credit for S3 outage
News Ordinarily, customers would have to apply to get credit for an Amazon Web Services outage, but the online retailer is handling Sunday's outage automatically.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, Servers, Storage, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Storage, Cloud Computing, SLA, Amazon.com Inc.
Apple's MobileMe on the road to recovery
News Apple has started posting status updates for the beleaguered e-mail and cloud-computing service, which is still causing problems for some users, but is on the mend.
Tags: Mac OS, Web services, E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Server, e-mail, Outage, News.com
News flash: Web 2.0 is unreliable
News Recurring uptime problems with Twitter, Seesmic and other sites demonstrate that the much loved Web 2.0 is having growing pains.
Tags: Web 2.0, Google Inc., Site, Yahoo! Inc., Video, Steven Spielberg, movie, Outage, server farm, Facebook
