Outage stories
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.
Waikato Hospital has this morning begun turning outpatients away from scheduled bookings after a major outage affecting its IT and phone systems.
Global internet disruptions have surged by 63% during the COVID-19 pandemic, with ISPs particularly affected, according to a report by ThousandEyes.
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.
Technical issues at many Australian and New Zealand firms go unnoticed until customers report them, revealing weak outage and delay detection methods.
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.
Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.
Businesses face high costs and risks with outages, impacting operations and reputation; understanding all stages is key.
The majority of organizations moving to the cloud are unprepared for a cloud outage, according to a new study by Veritas.
Major outage strikes Amazon's AWS, leading to widespread disruption for Slack, Medium, and Quora among others.
Confidence in cloud-based disaster recovery is growing, but risks, outages and downtime costs are still posing challenges for enterprises.
Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalating.
Vocus, an internet infrastructure provider in New Zealand, experienced a DDoS attack, causing an hour-long nationwide internet outage.
Chubb's Pierre Thorne discusses the countless potential implications of a data centre outage, and how to avoid them.
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.
WA law firm Jackson McDonald teams with Nutanix for hybrid cloud shift, boosts IT agility and client services.
Spark mobile and broadband services were down on Sunday, with widespread outages impacting some customers across the country.
Vodafone NZ internet is down around the country, and with no word from the company, customers have turned to Facebook to share their thoughts.
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