Testers of Microsoft's SQL Azure service experienced a three-plus hour unplanned outage this week -- just a couple of weeks before Microsoft is set to remove the beta tag from its Azure cloud service. by Mary Jo Foley
sigh . . .sigh . . .You know, I'm really beginning to realize that the "reliability" of "the cloud" isn't just about having a gazillion servers with super-redundancy or whatever.It's about all of the pieces working together. And it's only as reliable as the weakest link. Your cloud provider can...
I was spending the day at the Ferries 2009 conference in Seattle and towards the end of the day tried to send some text messages and make calls home to pick up my daughter, but nothing seemed to work. My T-Mobile data connection worked just fine, but both voice and...
yahoo mailI can't get to my email account. There are problems. It keeps telling me the link is broken. What can i do?Have had no problemsAnd I know that Yahoo will not be saving my emails for 18 months and use the contact to market to me like gmail does.
Scattered reports say the world's most widely used e-mail service was suffering from scattered outages on Monday morning. Yahoo Mail users reported problems Monday morning, with the service inaccessible for some and spotty for others. TechCrunch noticed a Twitter spike in reports of problems with Yahoo...
A period was dropped at the end of DNS domain name system records for the Swedish top-level domain, breaking the entire DNS lookup chain. A problem during routine maintenance of Sweden's top-level domain, .se, took down the internet for the country for about an hour on Monday night. ...
I'm not downplaying in the least how serious the ongoing Sidekick outage is or letting Microsoft's Danger subsidiary -- and/or any other companies involved in the loss of users' data -- off the hook. But, to me, the outage says more about the future of "Pink" than it does...
There has a been steady stream of e-mails continuing to come in from Facebook members who say they remain shut out of their accounts - despite assurance from Facebook that profiles have not been deleted. Something is really odd here. As a reporter covering Facebook, I...
Google executives addressed recent Gmail outages and noted that the company is currently running at a 99.9 percent reliability rate. The goal: Be at 99.99 percent by the end of the quarter. Speaking at a powwow with reporters, Google Sergey Brin spent a bit of time talking...
This is why I hate the Sidekick and gave mine upThere is absolutely no reason why you should lose access to your freaking contacts simply because the phone cannot connect to the data network. This isn't only an issue when the network goes down as it is now, it's an...
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A future that will never happen."But the way I look at it, every Gmail outage is a small investment I?m willing to make towards a future when I?ll be able to take its reliability utterly for granted."Keep dreaming.They are machines created by humans, maintained by humans, running software created by...
Gmail is down again? And you are giving them a free pass because they are Google? That is crazy talk. What you should be asking is "Why am I using this service that is constantly going down?" With an in-house solution you can have total control of your Microsoft...
So Gmail went down again this morning. It's a bit of a bummer, but I keep telling myself that it's OK, since I don't have to actually do anything to make it come back up again. All I have to do is check on the Apps Status page:...
The System Availability Database is a standalone program that provides a simple database and intuitive interface to log system incidents with details about the outage. This includes outage date and time, restoration date and time, downtime, customer affected, type of outage and cause of the outage. Reports allow summary and...
Only idiots use ....Gmail is privacy and security risk. It's big brother systems. If you send or receive from Gmail, someone may read you email texts.RE: Google explains massive Gmail outageAnybody that's in IT knows... this kind of thing happens once in a while. No matter how redundant or resiliant...
Email is an essential part of day to day business -- but it's one of those things you don't think about until it's not there anymore. Google has been trying hard to squeeze their way into the enterprise market with Google Apps, but outages definitely don't help. ...
Yes it is fair to criticizeThis was a preventable mistake, and all preventable mistakes are worth criticizing.However I think the more important question is whether we are overreacting to what happened. And I think we are. A two hour outage actually less than that is not worth the amount of...
Is it fair to criticize Google for yesterday's 100-minute Gmail outage, or is it par for the course when you're flying high in the cloud? TechVi's Randall Bennett and I discuss: More coverage on ZDNet: Adrian...
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