Outage news stories

Cloudflare says its outage for 19 of its data centers yesterday was because of a change in a long-running project to increase resilience in its busiest locations.

Vertiv has introduced Vertiv Geist Rack Transfer Switch (RTS), a new line of transfer switches that provides redundant power to single-corded devices.

New data from Uptime Institute has found that downtime costs and consequences are worsening as those involved in data infrastructure fail to find ways to curb outages.

‘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.

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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."

“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.