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Failed router component leads to two-hour T-Mobile BlackBerry email shutdown

"Stick together?"Not Monday afternoon.Failure of a component in a router led to slightly less than two hours of lost e-mail service for BlackBerry customers on T-Mobile USA's network west of the Mississippi River yesterday.T-Mobile spokesperson Peter Dobrow said the router failure affected service from around 4 p.m. to 5:45...

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Blog posts 2007-07-31

BlackBerry CEO: here's why there won't be any more major outages

In an interview with eWeek, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie thats him says the BlackBerry blackout of last month has been "unambigiously solved" and whats more, wont hapen again.eWeeks Wayne Rash noted "that the improbable combination of events, which included the failure of a minor software upgrade...

Tags: Balsillie, failover, Jim, News, Outages, RIM BlackBerry, Russell Shaw, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Before the world knew: insider's diary of BlackBerry service shutdown

For two hours before the BlackBerry email outage two weeks ago, the Zenprise BlackBerry service monitoring system in place at the County of Alameda (Cal.) data center in the 1.5 million-populaton county seat of Oakland "gave us some indications connectivity was intermittent," senior server engineer Paul Hinsberg told me...

Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, Case Histories

Blog posts 2007-04-30

EXCLUSIVE: Major BlackBerry user knew of email glitches AT LEAST two hours before outage

Ive been told by a third party that a Senior Server engineer at a large County in the San Francisco Bay area iwas notified days prior to the outage of intermittent BlackBerry email activity. Source then advises me that this engineer was then flagged at exactly 2:58 p.m. PT the...

Tags: News, Outages, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-24

BlackBerry: database problem caused the crash

Colleague Marguerite Reardon reports that BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has finally issued a statement identifying the cause of the 14-hour service disruption earlier this week.In a statement, RIM has "determined that the incident was triggered by the introduction of a new, noncritical system routine that was designed to...

Tags: Outages, News

Blog posts 2007-04-20

Outage post-mortem: BlackBerry AND their carriers BADLY fumble outage update info

I spent a good bit of yesterday calling carriers to obtain updates on the 14-hour BlackBerry email service outage.There were some bright points, but all in all I was not pleased with the information flow and presentation.First, let us discuss how each major U.S.-based BlackBerry carrier conveyed this data when...

Tags: News, Uncategorized, Outages

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Here's what probably caused the BlackBerry outage

Colleague Marguerite Reardon has talked to several networking administrators about the BlackBerry outage.Shes just posted an analysis of how this could have happened, and what technology systems were at fault.The blame seems to be on issues at one of BlackBerrys Network Operations Centers. Probably the one in Waterloo, co-located...

Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, News

Blog posts 2007-04-18

BlackBerry: cause of outage "under investigation"

Pinstacker MWPatterson received this note earlier today from BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion:The following information is current as of 09:00 on April 18, 2007. All times are EDT. On April 17, 2007, at approximately 20:15 EDT, the BlackBerry Network Operations Center NOC started investigating monitoring alerts in regards...

Tags: Outages, News, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Reports: BlackBerry service coming back up just now

Hayden James, who runs Pinstack, says:"Just contacted RIM moments ago they informed us that service has been restored for most BlackBerry users."They also said that they are closely monitoring systems in order to maintain normal service levels," Hayden adds.

Tags: Uncategorized, Outages

Blog posts 2007-04-18

EXCLUSIVE: I've just called all the major BlackBerry carriers- here's what they say about outage

Cingular-AT&T- National outage, working on the problem, many service tickets open.. SprintNextel- At this time, nationwide data outage, no estimated time to fix. Advises against troubleshooting your BlackBerry device.Verizon- There is a current nationwide BlackBerry outage, BlackBerry customers unable to send or receive messages. BlackBerry team is working on...

Tags: Uncategorized, Outages

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Additional Resources

Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...

Tags: security, Google Inc., licence, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?

I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Not if SunGard is involvedIf the "cloud" runs out of SunGard data centers, I wouldn't rely on it for much...Next year is THE year cloud computing diesNext year might be the year that companies realize cloud computing is a step backward to the dinosaur days of computing. Next year might...

Tags: Virtualization, Manufacturing, cloud computing, year-I

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?

umgotta say this sounds like a justification for an iffy iphone purchase or usage maybe? you make it sound like if BIS goes down you're dead in the water, but if BIS goes down all you lose is what you don't have with any other service anyway, you still get...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, BIS, outage, BlackBerry Data, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

VisualRoute 2009 Advanced 14.0a (Windows)

VisualRoute 2009 Advanced combines the tools traceroute, ping, and Whois into an easy-to-use graphical interface that analyzes Internet connectivity, identifying where bottlenecks or outages occur. The popular IP locator capability identifies the actual location of IP addresses - key information for investigating/reporting hackers and suspects. VisualRoute 2009 Advanced also provides...

Tags: IP, Whois, Microsoft Windows, Visualware, VisualRoute 2009 Advanced, IP Locator Capability, E-mail, Network Technology, Networking, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-15

VisualRoute 2010 14.0a (Windows)

VisualRoute combines the tools traceroute, ping, reverse DNS, and Whois into a single graphical interface that analyzes Internet connections to quickly locate where outages or slowdowns occur. An IP location database identifies the geographical location of IP addresses and Web servers, showing the path of an Internet connection on a...

Tags: Internet Connection, Network, IP, Server, Whois, Microsoft Windows, Hop, Visualware, VisualRoute, IP Location Database, Internet, Web Servers, Networking, Network Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-15

Partition Wizard Server Edition 4.2 (Windows)

Partition Wizard Server Edition is a Windows based partition manager. It supports both MBR and GUID partition table format running on 32/64 bits Operating System including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and latest Windows 7. It manages Windows server quickly and safely. When you use "Move/Resize Partition" function, the...

Tags: Partition, MT Solution, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Servers, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Internet Download Manager 5.18 build 5 (Windows)

Internet Download Manager is a tool for increasing download speeds by up to 5 times, and for resuming, scheduling, and organizing downloads. The program will resume unfinished downloads due to network problems, or unexpected power outages. The program features a full-fledged site grabber that downloads files that are specified with...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Video, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Site, Tonec, Internet Download Manager, Corporate Communications, Internet, Web Browsers, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-11

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10