Microsoft has publicly apologised for a three-day service outage on its Outlook.com and SkyDrive services. In a service status update on its website, Microsoft said: Further reading Why didn't Microsoft fight the SkyDrive case harder? ...
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Enterprises that rely on cloud-based services are getting more options for falling back on another cloud if necessary. On Tuesday, Nasuni introduced a cloud-to-cloud mirroring option to give customers extra assurance that their data will ...
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LinkedIn's domain name was temporarily redirected to a third-party server Thursday, which resulted in a service outage and potentially put user accounts at risk of compromise. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom recorded that LinkedIn was ...
Sony's gaming division pulled its latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 Wednesday, after widespread reports that installing it could render the console useless. Gamers took to Twitter and online forums such as Reddit to spread word ...
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Cloud storage service Dropbox users were hit with a widespread service outage this morning that lasted a little more than an hour. Tweets from outraged users around the world appeared to show the breadth of the service outage. According ...
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Seeing a “404 error” or the Twitter “Fail Whale” can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service outages, though, occur on the Internet on a daily basis, as the latest numbers from Outage Analyzer ...
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GOOGLE suffered disruptions on several of its cloud-based services including Gmail for about two hours last night for reasons that were not disclosed. The apps status dashboard of the world's most popular search engine indicated "service ...
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Microsoft trumpeted Office 365 customer successes at its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit on Tuesday, but some of those otherwise happy clients have a wish list of features and enhancements they'd like to see in the vendor's cloud email and ...
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It was a tough Monday morning for some Google Drive users who had to deal with a service outage that lasted about two hours. Google Drive, a free service that allows users to store documents, videos and Google Docs and access them ...
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) has issued a statement apologising for yet another service outage across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. RIM said: "We are currently experiencing a BlackBerry service issue affecting some ...
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Salesforce.com suffered a significant service outage on Tuesday, less than two weeks after another serious set of system problems. The cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) vendor's systems are divided into many instances ...
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Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the department that oversees three airports in the LA area, recently implemented a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). As part of the effort, the ...
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Corrupted router tables, not malicious protesters, were the culprits behind Monday's widespread outage of GoDaddy's Internet registrar and hosting services, the company reported. "The service outage was not caused by external influences," ...
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BT has confirmed a nationwide network problem that has affected broadband users across the country. On social networking site Twitter,the telecoms giant said:"Sorry if you were unable to use the internet this morning,we've got a network ...
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Sony said Thursday that the executive in charge of its online products,and linking them up to its broad hardware holdings,will leave the company at the end of the year. The Tokyo-based electronics giant said Tim Schaaff,who it poached ...
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