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Netflix: How we got a grip on AWS's cloud

Netflix: How we got a grip on AWS's cloud

...At the end of February Microsoft's Azure cloud had a severe outage and Amazon has had trouble in the past. How can you be... Read more

18 March, 2012 by Jack Clark
Cloud <endeca_term>outages</endeca_term>: Why storage is the real villain

Cloud outages: Why storage is the real villain

...remains a single point of failure that, as evidenced by the Amazon outage, can be disastrous. Without the ability to support redundancy, and thus failover... Read more

29 May, 2011 by Lori MacVittie

BlackBerry owners sue RIM over outage

...is facing a possible class action lawsuit in Canada over the global outage that struck BlackBerry customers in October. The suit (PDF), which seeks class... Read more

27 October, 2011 by Steven Musil

BlackBerry outage: Service now returning, says RIM

...in access to email, web and messaging says RIM after three-day outage... Access to BlackBerry services has significantly improved in Europe, says RIMPhoto: Natasha... Read more

13 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

BlackBerry data services suffer massive outage

...Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been hit by a data outage that cut off access to email, the internet and instant messaging, among... Read more

10 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

AWS promises better communication after outage

...Amazon Web Services apologised on Friday for an outage that lasted more than a day and took some services offline. Alongside... Read more

3 May, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Google: Gmail outage caused by software update

...A storage software update was behind a Gmail outage on Monday, according to Google. The update left users of the service... Read more

1 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Egypt internet outages hit Facebook and Twitter

...Amid a third day of anti-government protests, internet outages and disruptions occurred on Thursday in Egypt. Anti-government protests in Egypt... Read more

28 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Skype outage continues to affect enterprise users

...Skype's enterprise users may still be suffering service outages after interruptions on Wednesday, according to the company. The Skype downtime affected... Read more

23 December, 2010 by Jack Clark

Facebook suffers outage as redesign rolls out

...Facebook apologised for a brief outage on Thursday, citing a technical glitch that prompted the company to take... Read more

17 December, 2010 by Elinor Mills

IBM error triggers bank outage

...within the bank's storage system led to the seven-hour service outage on 5 July. In a statement posted on its website addressing its... Read more

15 July, 2010 by Eileen Yu

Intuit online services resume after outage

...TurboTax Online, Quickbooks Online, Quicken and Quickbase — are back online following an outage that lasted at least 36 hours. The company said the outage occurred... Read more

18 June, 2010 by Sam Diaz

Intuit reports outages on Quicken, TurboTax

...Intuit said today that it is experiencing outages on a number of its online services, including Quicken, Quickbooks and TurboTax... Read more

17 June, 2010 by Sam Diaz

Iranians suffer fresh block on internet services

...Iranians suffered a widespread internet outage on Monday, the second disruption in 10 days to leave millions without... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Steven Musil

Global outage takes down sites and services across the internet

Router problem blamed... A global internet outage took down sites and services across the web on Monday. Read more

7 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

4 minutes ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

15 minutes ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

56 minutes ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

3 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

4 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

4 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

6 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

6 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

8 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

8 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

13 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

14 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

17 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

23 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

1 day ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

1 day ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

1 day ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report