outage news from FierceCIO

The string of high-profile IT and data services failures in recent weeks--including the Epsilon data breach, Amazon web services outage and the PlayStation Network problems--gives some credence to Read more...

The reputation of cloud computing took another hit late last week when several high-profile customers of Amazon's web hosting services were knocked offline. Amazon said that it had server problems in Read more...

For organizations harboring doubts about moving critical applications to the cloud, an outage of Google Apps and Gmail early this week may confirm their fears. Accounts for a small percentage of Read more...

Enterprises in North America jointly lose $26.5 billion in revenue a year because of IT outages and the length of time it takes to restore services, according to a survey report from CA Technologies. Read more...

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Business Productivity Online Suite customers received an apology from the company for service outages that took place in August and September. The BPOS offerings include Read more...

Back in July, DBS Group, the largest bank in Singapore, experienced an outage that lasted seven hours and disrupted banking services at ATMs, branch offices and websites. InformationWeek's Bob Evans Read more...

What's up with Gmail? Computerworld.com reports that a prolonged, ongoing Gmail outage last week had some people very upset. Google Apps administrators were hearing complaints from their end users, Read more...