Outage stories

‘If it can happen to Facebook, it could happen to us.’ This will be the concern in IT departments all over the world.>>

"Organisations need to shift mindsets, adopt a managed risk, not an IT-based approach. Security operations needs to be data-driven and predictive where continuous threat modelling runs at its core.">>

Xero is experiencing major systems issues coinciding with end of month invoicing, creating disruption for customers worldwide.>>

As more essential services are delivered digitally, availability becomes the most pressing concern, writes Cisco ThousandEyes solutions architect Mike Hicks.>>

Internet infrastructure provider Vocus has confirmed it was hit with a DDoS attack which took its internet down for about an hour today, affecting people across the country.>>

Waikato Hospital has this morning begun turning outpatients away from scheduled bookings after a major outage affecting its IT and phone systems.>>

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

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.>>

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are they listening and truly understanding your priorities and unique challenges?>>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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