Tag: outage

Amazon's botched backup causes cloud chaos 
By Liam Tung | Aug 17, 2011 | Comment Now 
Admits software bug also caused it to delete storage snapshots.
 
Taking the fall 
By Ry Crozier | Aug 11, 2011 | Comment Now 
Why you should keep your vendor out of the public firing line.
 
DIY Office 365 migration faces certain outage 
By Liam Tung | Aug 9, 2011 | Comment Now 
Wait for us, says Microsoft.
 
'Fire trip' behind Global Switch power issue 
By Liz Tay | Jul 18, 2011 | Comment Now 
Technician accidentally simulates fire conditions in data centre room.
 
Global Switch data centre suffers power issue 
By Liz Tay | Jul 14, 2011 | Comment Now 
Equipment in Sydney facility goes offline.
 
UberGlobal finds root of Friday outages 
By Ry Crozier | Jun 28, 2011 | Comment Now 
Kit changes expose network design issue.
 
UberGlobal suspects customer kit caused IT outage 
 
IT outsourcer's US$5m storage disaster 
By Liam Tung | May 31, 2011 | Comment Now 
Primary cause still unknown.
 
Fortana internet services back online 
By Ry Crozier | May 30, 2011 | Comment Now 
Interstate link behind outage.
 
Skype bug blocks mostly Microsoft users 
By Liam Tung | May 27, 2011 | Comment Now 
The post-acquisition outage.
 
ANZ online banking suffers short outage 
May 17, 2011 | 1 Comment 
Systems reboot brings services back online.
 
Westpac: Quicker to reboot than press DR alarm 
By Brett Winterford | May 6, 2011 | 8 Comments 
Why Westpac made the right call to switch off services.
 
Tech outages sparked compliments: NAB 
By Liz Tay | May 5, 2011 | Comment Now 
Bank relies on customer communication amid systems overhaul.
 
Sorry Sony admits it held 10m credit cards  
By Liam Tung | May 1, 2011 | Comment Now 
Executives bow in apology.
 
Opinion: Time for Amazon to pay up over outage 
By Brett Winterford | Apr 28, 2011 | 1 Comment 
The future of AWS hangs on how Amazon responds to the Easter outage.
 
Growing pains: Amazon EC2 suffers huge outage 
By Brett Winterford | Apr 27, 2011 | 3 Comments 
Described as the "worst outage in cloud computing history".
 
Data theft prompts PlayStation Network outage 
By Liz Tay, Liam Tung | Apr 27, 2011 | Comment Now 
Did Sony shut down PSN to stymie pirates or to protect customer data?
 
NAB to waive late fees after latest IT calamity 
By Stuart Finlayson | Apr 18, 2011 | Comment Now 
Begins battle to win back angry customers.
 
Virgin Blue settles over check-in systems outage 
By Liz Tay | Apr 5, 2011 | Comment Now 
Resolves $20m dispute with Accenture subsidiary.
 
'Demand' disrupts Westpac online banking 
By Liz Tay | Mar 17, 2011 | Comment Now 
Pay day to blame?
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