Businesses lose an average of about £3,000 per minute in a data centre outage, says a report
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TalkTalk Paralysed By Network Failure
UK's third largest internet service provider TalkTalk went silent with a network failure this morning
VMware Engineer Slip Caused Cloud Foundry Outage
VMware has said that human error caused a second outage to its Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service
Sony, Amazon Problems Aren’t Unique To The Cloud
Cloud services aren’t inherently less secure than those held in data centres. In fact, they may be more secure
More Cloud Misery As Yahoo Mail And Flickr Go Dark
Two of Yahoo's most popular services were down for several hours for a million users, the company said
Amazon EC2 Outage Will Not Be Forgotten
Amazon has waved the all-clear flag, but there still are a lot of smoldering IT managers who haven't yet cooled off, says Chris Preimesberger
PlayStation Network Breach Compromises 77m Users
Sony takes a week to tell customers their personal data has been put at risk by PlayStation Network hack
Amazon Web Problems Persist On Second Day
More than 40 hours after the initial outage, numerous AWS-hosted Websites were still offline
BBC Suffers Total Website Outage
The BBC admitted that most of its websites went offline in an incident described as a 'major network outage'
Vodafone Network Crippled By Break-In
Did the mobile operator not have a back-up plan in place for theft of its network kit?
Skype Outage Threatens Millions Of Christmas Day Calls
Millions of Christmas day calls with friends and families may be threatened by the ongoing disruption to Skype
Skype Outage Still Hitting Millions of Users
Millions of Skype users are still struggling to connect more than 24 hours after a supernode failure
Massive Network Outage Disables Skype Users
Skype went down for several hours yesterday, affecting millions of VoIP users in its worst outage since 2007