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Gmail's hour-long outage on Tuesday
The service has maintained an impressive uptime record of 99 percent since 2007.
Outage hits Microsoft Office 365 customers
Microsoft's ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) Office 365 cloud service was hit with an outage on Wednesday, with the problem originating from one of Microsoft's North American data centers. The downtime apparently also
Yahoo: 1M users affected by email outage
Yahoo's email service suffered a minor outage last week that affected a "small percentage" of its users beginning at 7:30 a.m. PST on Thursday. Small is a relative term, of course, and in Yahoo's
Financial liability is one risk of cloud-based services
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
Cloud risks put in spotlight by Amazon outage
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
Gmail outage highlights cloud risks
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
Google red-faced following Gmail outage, blames storage software update
A storage software update bug resulted in some Gmail users losing access to their email data over the weekend as their messages were erroneously deleted from Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) servers. Ben
Survey: IT outages cost North American enterprises $26.5 billion annually
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.
PayPal outage the result of network hardware failure
Back-to-back outages were experienced by PayPal last Friday, resulting in unhappy merchants and red faces at the online payment solution company. It has now emerged that the outage was the result of
Facebook down for hours in "worst outage in 4 years"
Facebook experienced a technical glitch lasting a few hours on Thursday, which resulted in the longest outage in four years, says the social networking site. The fault was traced to a flawed
