Outage stories - Page 3

ANZ firms fail to detect technical issues - until customers report them
Fri, 13th Mar 2020
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cx
Technical issues at many Australian and New Zealand firms go unnoticed until customers report them, revealing weak outage and delay detection methods.

Top internet outages of 2019 - ThousandEyes
Wed, 15th Jan 2020
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firewalls
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ddos
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network infrastructure
The most significant of these outages took place over the northern hemisphere summer and disrupted nearly every top tech company in some fashion.

Two key ways to prevent data centre outages
Fri, 5th Jul 2019
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edge computing
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outage
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modular data centre
Power loss is still causing significant problems within the industry, according to more than 1600 operators and IT practitioners surveyed.

Protecting data centres from fire – your options
Thu, 21st Mar 2019
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hyperscale
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dc
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fire
Chubb's Pierre Thorne discusses the countless potential implications of a data centre outage, and how to avoid them.

Azure outage postmortem: Microsoft reveals what happened and why
Wed, 12th Sep 2018
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devops
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.

NAB apologises after nationwide systems outage
Mon, 28th May 2018
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datacentre infrastructure
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fintech
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power / energy
NAB apologises for a nationwide technology outage that left customers unable to access banking services for nearly five hours on Saturday due to a power issue.

Anatomy of an outage: Understanding the lifecycle of downtime
Thu, 19th Apr 2018
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dr
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personal computing devices
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cloud services
Businesses face high costs and risks with outages, impacting operations and reputation; understanding all stages is key.

Australian law firm builds hybrid cloud strategy on Nutanix OS
Fri, 6th Apr 2018
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devops
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hybrid cloud
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converged infrastructure
WA law firm Jackson McDonald teams with Nutanix for hybrid cloud shift, boosts IT agility and client services.

Chaos in the cloud: Majority of organisations moving to the cloud aren't prepared for an outage
Mon, 19th Mar 2018
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dr
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multi-cloud
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cloud services
The majority of organizations moving to the cloud are unprepared for a cloud outage, according to a new study by Veritas.

Amazon's AWS S3 suffers failure - Slack, Medium and Quora all affected
Wed, 1st Mar 2017
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storage
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Major outage strikes Amazon's AWS, leading to widespread disruption for Slack, Medium, and Quora among others.

Updated: What went down with Spark’s weekend outage
Tue, 31st Jan 2017
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uc
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personal computing devices
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customers
Spark mobile and broadband services were down on Sunday, with widespread outages impacting some customers across the country.

Cloud disaster recovery confidence up, but challenges remain
Wed, 9th Mar 2016
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dr
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private cloud
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hyperscale
Confidence in cloud-based disaster recovery is growing, but risks, outages and downtime costs are still posing challenges for enterprises.
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UPDATED: Vodafone internet down around New Zealand, customers want answers
Thu, 28th Jan 2016
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uc
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wireless networks
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cloud services
Vodafone NZ internet is down around the country, and with no word from the company, customers have turned to Facebook to share their thoughts.

DDos dramatically increasing cause of data center outages
Tue, 26th Jan 2016
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ddos
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalating.

Vodafone network down and out
Thu, 16th Apr 2015
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uc
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customers
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3g
Customers nationwide using the 2G, 3G and 4G network may be having difficulty making and receiving calls, TXTs and using data.

Vodafone fibre cut, call centres down around the country
Mon, 16th Feb 2015
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uc
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contact centre
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outage
Vodafone is experiencing an unexpected fibre cut in Auckland, Penrose, and says this is impacting Vodafone call centres nationwide.

Telecom down…again
Wed, 12th Dec 2012
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uc
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customers
Telecom customers in New Zealand face further connection issues, following two outages yesterday, with no compensation offered.

Telecom fixes NZ-wide fault
Tue, 11th Dec 2012
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uc
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customers
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outage
Telecom resolves major broadband outage that left 200,000 customers offline; service restored but some may still face issues with reconnecting.

Google faces enquiry over undeleted data
Mon, 30th Jul 2012
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data privacy
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google
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street view
Following the global outage of Google Talk, the internet search engine is under investigation after admitting failing to delete private user information.

TelstraClear crunches unmetered weekend numbers
Wed, 7th Dec 2011
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telstraclear
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truenet
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outage
TelstraClear's unmetered weekend saw a data usage 'frenzy,' with customers consuming 359TB, a 2.5-fold increase from the previous weekend's total.