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Anatomy of an outage: Understanding the lifecycle of downtime

Thu, 19th Apr 2018
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Businesses face high costs and risks with outages, impacting operations and reputation; understanding all stages is key.
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Australian law firm builds hybrid cloud strategy on Nutanix OS

Fri, 6th Apr 2018
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WA law firm Jackson McDonald teams with Nutanix for hybrid cloud shift, boosts IT agility and client services.
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Chaos in the cloud: Majority of organisations moving to the cloud aren't prepared for an outage

Mon, 19th Mar 2018
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The majority of organizations moving to the cloud are unprepared for a cloud outage, according to a new study by Veritas.
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Amazon's AWS S3 suffers failure - Slack, Medium and Quora all affected

Wed, 1st Mar 2017
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Major outage strikes Amazon's AWS, leading to widespread disruption for Slack, Medium, and Quora among others.
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Updated: What went down with Spark’s weekend outage

Tue, 31st Jan 2017
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Spark mobile and broadband services were down on Sunday, with widespread outages impacting some customers across the country.
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Cloud disaster recovery confidence up, but challenges remain

Wed, 9th Mar 2016
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Confidence in cloud-based disaster recovery is growing, but risks, outages and downtime costs are still posing challenges for enterprises.
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UPDATED: Vodafone internet down around New Zealand, customers want answers

Thu, 28th Jan 2016
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Vodafone NZ internet is down around the country, and with no word from the company, customers have turned to Facebook to share their thoughts.
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DDos dramatically increasing cause of data center outages

Tue, 26th Jan 2016
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Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalating.
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Vodafone network down and out

Thu, 16th Apr 2015
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Customers nationwide using the 2G, 3G and 4G network may be having difficulty making and receiving calls, TXTs and using data.
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Vodafone fibre cut, call centres down around the country

Mon, 16th Feb 2015
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Vodafone is experiencing an unexpected fibre cut in Auckland, Penrose, and says this is impacting Vodafone call centres nationwide.
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Telecom down…again

Wed, 12th Dec 2012
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Telecom customers in New Zealand face further connection issues, following two outages yesterday, with no compensation offered.
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Telecom fixes NZ-wide fault

Tue, 11th Dec 2012
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Telecom resolves major broadband outage that left 200,000 customers offline; service restored but some may still face issues with reconnecting.
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Google faces enquiry over undeleted data

Mon, 30th Jul 2012
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Following the global outage of Google Talk, the internet search engine is under investigation after admitting failing to delete private user information.
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TelstraClear crunches unmetered weekend numbers

Wed, 7th Dec 2011
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TelstraClear's unmetered weekend saw a data usage 'frenzy,' with customers consuming 359TB, a 2.5-fold increase from the previous weekend's total.
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NZNET trouble - we dig deeper

Thu, 27th Oct 2011
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Tales of court action, shareholder disagreements, employment disputes and frozen bank accounts for local ISP and hosting company.
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Vodafone network outage - Updated

Tue, 4th Oct 2011
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Vodafone has posted a notice on its online forum saying some users may currently be unable to browse the internet.
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Attempted upgrade shuts down 14 govt sites - Updated

Wed, 28th Sep 2011
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A number of government websites including the Companies Office and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs have suffered a major technology issue.
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Office 365 suffers outage - Updated

Thu, 18th Aug 2011
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The outages are frustrating for technology companies trying to convince IT professionals that cloud services are reliable.
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PSN restoration begins

Wed, 1st Jun 2011
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Sony’s PlayStation Network is on the road to recovery after hackers compromised it, causing a nearly month-long outage.
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Cloud outages result in Amazon apology

Tue, 3rd May 2011
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Amazon apologises and explains the large scale outages in its cloud hosting service that disrupted high traffic websites across the net.