Outage stories

"We saw outages spike to unprecedented levels -- especially among internet service providers who seem to have been more vulnerable to disruptions than cloud providers.”More

It’s estimated the average cost per network outage in the United States alone amounts to US$402,542 – with one in ten major outages costing over $1 million.More

A PagerDuty survey says that 42% of firms only uncover major technology issues from their customers. More

The most significant of these outages took place over the northern hemisphere summer and disrupted nearly every top tech company in some fashion.More

Power loss is still causing significant problems within the industry, according to more than 1600 operators and IT practitioners surveyed.More

Chubb's Pierre Thorne discusses the countless potential implications of a data centre outage, and how to avoid them.More

Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.More

The bank experienced major connectivity issues leaving many customers unable to access their money.More

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“Our IT teams are genuinely happier - they’re not fighting fires, staying late or over the weekends to fix bugs and outages."More

“Getting this right means less downtime, financial impact, loss of customers' trust and damage to brand reputation."More

The outage appeared to have begun around 12:35 pm eastern standard time.More

Vodafone NZ internet is down around the country, and with no word from the company, customers have turned to Facebook to share their thoughts.More

Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalatingMore

Vodafone is experiencing an unexpected fibre cut in Auckland, Penrose, and says this is impacting Vodafone call centres nationwide.More

Vodafone has posted a notice on its online forum saying some users may currently be unable to browse the internet.More

A number of government websites including the Companies Office and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs have suffered a major technology issue.More

The outages are frustrating for technology companies trying to convince IT professionals that cloud services are reliable.More

Updated: TelstraClear's email outage has now been fixed. An investigation is underway.More

With 40 cellsites still down this morning following a hardware failure on its XT Network, Telecom is calling for an independent review to look at why its network crashed twice in two months.More