Outage stories - Page 3

83% of companies suffer business damage during the first day of an IT outage, according to new research from Netenrich.

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.

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.

Businesses face high costs and risks with outages, impacting operations and reputation; understanding all stages is key.

WA law firm Jackson McDonald teams with Nutanix for hybrid cloud shift, boosts IT agility and client services.

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.

Customers nationwide using the 2G, 3G and 4G network may be having difficulty making and receiving calls, TXTs and using data.

Vodafone is experiencing an unexpected fibre cut in Auckland, Penrose, and says this is impacting Vodafone call centres nationwide.

Telecom customers in New Zealand face further connection issues, following two outages yesterday, with no compensation offered.

Telecom resolves major broadband outage that left 200,000 customers offline; service restored but some may still face issues with reconnecting.

Following the global outage of Google Talk, the internet search engine is under investigation after admitting failing to delete private user information.