Outage stories

The Microsoft Azure outage, triggered by a faulty CrowdStrike update, disrupted banking, aviation, and healthcare globally, highlighting cybersecurity flaws.

Catchpoint's inaugural Internet Resilience Report reveals outages costing businesses up to USD $10 million monthly, underscoring internet reliability's critical role.

On-prem AI and sustainable practices to redefine data centre functionality by 2024, predicts Juniper's Perry Sui.

HammondCare selects Paessler PRTG to monitor IT infrastructure across its network of aged-care facilities in Australia, reducing outages.

Cloudflare outage caused by change in resilience project, impacting 50% of requests. No attack involved, says company.

Vertiv has introduced Vertiv Geist Rack Transfer Switch (RTS), a new line of transfer switches that provides redundant power to single-corded devices.

Downtime costs are increasing as data infrastructure struggles to curb failures, according to new data from Uptime Institute.

‘If it can happen to Facebook, it could happen to us.’ This will be the concern in IT departments all over the world.

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.

Vocus, an internet infrastructure provider in New Zealand, experienced a DDoS attack, causing an hour-long nationwide internet outage.

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.

Power loss is still causing significant problems within the industry, according to more than 1600 operators and IT practitioners surveyed.

Chubb's Pierre Thorne discusses the countless potential implications of a data centre outage, and how to avoid them.

Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.