Outage stories
Confidence in cloud-based disaster recovery is growing, but risks, outages and downtime costs are still posing challenges for enterprises.
Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalating.
Customers nationwide using the 2G, 3G and 4G network may be having difficulty making and receiving calls, TXTs and using data.
Vodafone is experiencing an unexpected fibre cut in Auckland, Penrose, and says this is impacting Vodafone call centres nationwide.
Telecom customers in New Zealand face further connection issues, following two outages yesterday, with no compensation offered.
Telecom resolves major broadband outage that left 200,000 customers offline; service restored but some may still face issues with reconnecting.
Following the global outage of Google Talk, the internet search engine is under investigation after admitting failing to delete private user information.
TelstraClear's unmetered weekend saw a data usage 'frenzy,' with customers consuming 359TB, a 2.5-fold increase from the previous weekend's total.
Tales of court action, shareholder disagreements, employment disputes and frozen bank accounts for local ISP and hosting company.
Vodafone has posted a notice on its online forum saying some users may currently be unable to browse the internet.
A number of government websites including the Companies Office and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs have suffered a major technology issue.
The outages are frustrating for technology companies trying to convince IT professionals that cloud services are reliable.
Amazon apologises and explains the large scale outages in its cloud hosting service that disrupted high traffic websites across the net.
Steady progress is being made, with the majority of customers now back online, a Telecom spokesperson has said.
After a significant outage, TelstraClear restores email services, apologises for disruption affecting Paradise and ClearNet users.
Orcon loses emails for 266 customers in overnight outage, with efforts to retrieve them so far unsuccessful. #Orcon #emailoutage.
Orcon experienced two outages yesterday, attributing the first to Vector's network issues and the second to a power board failure at its Northcote data centre.
Spark mobile and broadband services were down on Sunday, with widespread outages impacting some customers across the country.
Vodafone NZ internet is down around the country, and with no word from the company, customers have turned to Facebook to share their thoughts.
Sony's PlayStation Network is on the road to recovery after hackers compromised it, causing a nearly month-long outage.
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