Tag Archives: outages and downtime

3 Steps to Ensure Cloud Stability in 2017

WHIR contributor Bill Kleyman has narrowed it down to three easy steps you should keep in mind to ensure cloud stability. Continue reading

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Fatal Clock Defect Hits ‘Virtually Every’ IT Hardware Vendor

Faulty Intel chips – expected to fail after 18 months of use and destroy equipment in which they are installed – have been identified in the products of more than a dozen manufacturers. Continue reading

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Report: Dyn DDoS Attack Contributes to More Website Downtime in Q4

More than three-quarters of the top 100,000 most-visited websites in the U.S. achieved availability of 99.9 percent, or three nines, in Q4 2016. Continue reading

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GitLab’s Not Alone: AWS, Google and Other Clouds Can Lose Data, Too

As GitLab users learned the hard way last week, data loss can occur even on well managed public cloud platforms. Continue reading

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Why Does It Seem Like Airline Computers Are Crashing More?

The more complicated the network, the more prone to failure it becomes. Continue reading

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