According to CRN Technology News outages are not that prevalent and pervasive as they were in recent years. But on the other side this does not mean, that todays outages have become more harmless. In fact, the opposite seems to be the case. DevOpps.com estimates the yearly costs of downtime to one Million Dollar (minimum!). Here comes our compilation of the Top Ten Outages in 2015.
When a webpage you need does not open, it is often difficult to find out what the status is. Is this just a local outage? Or is the website down for everyone? We list up four helpful services and one option to create a custom dashboard for yourself.
This is a pointer to a white paper on business continuity, published by Citrix in collaboration with IDG. The paper provides an overview about what has to be considered to have working business continuity plan in place.
On Sunday, September 20, a downtime of Amazon Web Services (AWS) affected a number of other, large services relying on this resource. Here are some insights into how this outage was reported. The issues affected the performance for several hours before everything got back to normal. Below are some more details as to the causes, based on information from the AWS status board.
The ORBIT project is about higher fault-tolerance and high availability of IT resources. Here we look into recent outages – from power disruptions to IT network outage. The goal is to provide some insight into outages, big and small as well as to try to track down the reasons for the service disruptions. At last, we always try to get some information how the organization affected by the service disruption communicate