Uptime Institute: Outages in 2024 less frequent and severe but more expensive
Power remains leading cause of impactful outages
News - outages
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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University of Manchester's neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker brought down by cooling failure
SpiNNaker overheated during the Easter weekend, forcing Uni to shut down system
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Geneva airspace restored after flooding impacted data center
Heavy thunderstorms affected data center's cooling systems
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DCD Podcast - How CDNs quietly took over the Internet, with Mark de Jong
Content Delivery Networks did a lot more than anyone expected
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South Africa's Home Affairs taken offline by mainframe failure
Government department puts blame on the state's IT agency
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Oracle Cloud, NetSuite, and Azure face outages in Sydney, Australia
Likely caused by an issue at a shared data center
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Extreme weather causes outages in the US and Australia
Effects of climate change also impacted connectivity in Scotland
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Uptime Institute launches risk assessment service for banks
Is their digital infrastructure fiscally sound?
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51 join class action against OVHcloud over fire data loss
OVHcloud will get an official letter in March
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Air conditioning, fire suppression took down Australian betting site Tabcorp
Report confirms there was no fire: fire suppression shockwave took down gambling on the day of the Melbourne Cup
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OVH fire destroys Rust game data, takes other sites offline
... while security consultants claim botnets suffer too
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Unisys data center failure downs Pennsylvania's state website
A host of Pennsylvania's services went down including voter registration
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System error halts Tokyo Stock Exchange
Trading halted on Thursday after unknown fault
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Microsoft outage brings down Azure, Office 365 and Teams
Configuration change creates chaos
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Cooling loss causes outage at Microsoft Azure's UK South region
Bringing down the country's Covid-19 tracking site
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'IP outage' on CenturyLink network caused by Flowspec mitigation, says Cloudflare CEO
Websites lost connectivity because of BGP feature
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Santander bank goes down on Bank Holiday payday
Not very good timing for an outage
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Report: faulty UPS triggers fire at Telstra’s London data center
The fire also tripped the bus bar switch
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Zoom has a global outage
Home workers stop work - Monday morning US time
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Cisco to acquire Internet monitoring company ThousandEyes
The deal is estimated to be around $1bn
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Adobe's cloud service suffers major outage, impacting Photoshop, InDesign, and more
This better not delay the next DCD Magazine
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France's OVHcloud suffers brief outage
Forty minutes of network downtime, apparently not due to coronavirus
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TSB signs up with IBM for cloud and digital overhaul
The deal follows a huge IT failure in 2018
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Kuala Lumpur airport crippled by network failure
Passengers must use cash, not cards, while waiting for delayed flights, as the outage enters its third day
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Uptime: Enterprise data centers run the majority of IT workloads
But hybrid infrastructure and distributed applications are happening, and we need to iron out the risks, says Uptime Institute survey
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BA and CBRE settle dispute over 2017 data center outage
“With no admission as to liability”
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Nigerian law enforcement agency to relocate its servers following data center fire
Says the flames took off in the server room
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Uptime Institute: Data centers are becoming more efficient, less reliable
Survey shows average PUE at a record low, but the rate of outages is increasing