Posts Tagged ‘outage’

Global Switch GS2 in Docklands goes down twice in two weeks

July 27, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Global Switch’s GS2 data centre in London’s Docklands experienced two short power outages in as ...

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Rackspace outage traced to load balancers

July 3, 2017
Philbert Shih

Rackspace suffered an outage last week. ...

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British Airways lost revenue comparable to Delta Airlines

June 26, 2017
Philbert Shih

The recent British Airways outage is estimated to have cost the company £80m in lost revenue and ex...

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Skype outage down to DDoS?

June 26, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Microsoft’s Skype confirmed that ‘an incident’ impacted many users, rendering them unable to s...

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Disgruntled ex-admin behind Verelox outage?

June 16, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Dutch hosting provider Verelox is said to have spent a weekend restoring servers after ‘an ex-admi...

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Human error behind BA data centre outage

June 7, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Willie Walsh, CEO of BA parent company IAG, went on record that the data centre outage that caused t...

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Capita data centre outage impacts UK, Ireland customers

May 30, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Another day, another data centre outage. This time a Capita data centre in the UK experienced an out...

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British Airways data centre power issue causes chaos

May 30, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

BA suffered a massive computer outage which grounded over 1k flights and left 75k passengers strande...

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WhatsApp down: global outage for Facebook-owned messaging app

May 9, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Messaging app WhatsApp experienced a global outage on May 3. ...

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DDoS attack takes down Melbourne IT

April 24, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Melbourne IT experienced a ‘large’ DDoS attack on its DNS servers. ...

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Azure cloud node in Japan goes down due to cooling system failure

April 10, 2017
Philbert Shih

The Azure cloud infrastructure node in Japan went down recently. ...

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AWS outage a reminder about single points of failure; service providers, multi-cloud

March 1, 2017
Philbert Shih

AWS suffered an extended outage to its S3 storage service over the last few days. ...

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