Blogs Every outage has a silver lining In the wake of the recent AWS outage, Jason Walsh says we should consider just how fragile the Internet is 28 Oct
Radio JunieXR’s Grace Dinan on live extended reality How broadcast TV is meeting extended reality and the rest of the week's stories 28 Oct
Pro Microsoft says less than 1% of its systems affected by CrowdStrike failure Faltering updates plagued security firm before Friday's crash 22 Jul
Pro Japan’s second biggest telco finally fixes network after three-day outage KDDI’s disruption affected over 39 million users, with the government announcing it would set up an expert panel to investigate the matter 5 Jul
Pro Users report global Slack outage The company confirmed issues are affecting global customers with some reporting a total locking out of services 22 Feb
Pro Australia Internet banking outage blamed on DDoS mitigation service A technical issue with Akamai's DDoS platform crashed a number of online banking services 17 Jun
Pro Fastly outage takes down Amazon, GitHub and more CDN downtime left Internet users unable to access countless websites, code-hosting platforms and streaming services 8 Jun
Life Google services, apps hit by global outage Gmail, Docs, Workspace, Sheets and Meet were knocked offline for more than a half hour 14 Dec
Life Chaos as social networks experience brief outage Facebook properties get hit with image, video play problem 3 Jul
Pro Technology crises take significant personal toll on business leaders – study Almost two-thirds of leaders admit to business disruption damages their mental well-being 24 Jun
Blogs Even heroes stumble Whatever is thought of how it operates, Facebook has always been a paragon for operations 15 Mar
Pro ‘Irregular software occurrence’ caused western ATC issues IAA confirms software issue took out air traffic control in western airspace 4 Oct
Blogs Shutdown or meltdown: DC dilemma When faced with meltdown or shutdown, cloud services suffered. But was there another choice? 7 Sep
Blogs Confounding with simplicity Sometimes even Occam’s Razor invites scrutiny, and fuels speculation 10 Jul
Blogs Data centres swelter with the rest of us The benefits of Ireland's 'temperate climate' may have been overstated 26 Jun
Pro Power surge at British Airways data centre causes flight chaos Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled as backup plan fails 29 May
Pro Tech outages in 2016 and prevention for 2017 Making sure your brand isn’t negatively impacted by downtime 3 Jan
Pro Back-up power fault to blame for AWS outage in Australia Latent bug caused "slower than expected recovery" of service 13 Jun
Pro Data centre outages increasingly caused by DDoS While overall unplanned data centre outages have decreased, those that were the result of targeted DDoS attacks have skyrocketed 21 Jan
Blogs Cloudy, with a chance of outage An outage in a cloud service gets widely reported, but are they really all that bad? 18 Jan
Pro And the cloud provider with the best uptime in 2015 is… Amazon’s cloud bests those of Microsoft and Google by this reliability test 11 Jan
Life Facebook crashes for second time in a week Social network goes down for better part of an hour Monday evening 29 Sep
Life Facebook outage sends millions to Twitter Ten-minute outage creates stampede on microblogging network 25 Sep
Pro AWS glitch strikes Netflix and Tinder, offering a wake-up call for others 'Design your cloud apps for failure,' with adequate failover protection, urges analyst 23 Sep
Pro NYSE, United Airlines and Wall Street Journal struck by major outages A bad day for several major organisations prompts hacking fears 9 Jul
Life Facebook, Instagram temporarily down in many countries, hack denied Users in various locations worldwide reported an outage in service 27 Jan
Pro Ulster Bank fined €3.5m for IT failure Regulators says outsourcing arrangement to blame for 2012 RBS IT meltdown knock-on effects 12 Nov
Blogs Broken banks breaking Yet another banking system failure, but is the tech really to blame? 29 Aug
Life ‘High traffic’ downs Sony’s PlayStation, Entertainment networks Group claiming responsibility also appears to be involved in a bomb threat against an American Airlines flight 25 Aug
Blogs Fear is loading in the cloud Service providers could do better when handling the inevitable 22 Aug
Pro Microsoft Azure experiences further outages Among services affected are Cloud Services, Virtual Machines and Websites 19 Aug
Life BBC server problems cause online outage New CTO faces first calamity a week before taking up post 22 Jul
Pro Microsoft admits comms and tech problems during Office 365 outages Lync Online and Exchange Online went down for hours in separate incidents 30 Jun
Life RSS service Feedly vows to resist DDoS extortionists News aggregator goes dark as hackers swamp its servers 11 Jun
Pro ‘Fat finger’ admin causes cloud provider outage Joyent looking at how to improve software and operational procedures to prevent a reoccurrence 29 May
Life IT issues halt sale of half a million Rugby World Cup tickets Website breakdown stifles quick service 19 May
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