Gmail rollercoaster: It’s up, it’s down
The 146 million folks who depend on Google for their e-mail were sorely disappointed Tuesday afternoon when the service sputtered and went out for several hours. Google engineers are blaming the outage...
View Article6 simple disaster recovery steps IT should take now
Shrinking IT budgets may leave little room for disaster recovery, but with a season of stormy weather approaching, organizations may not have much choice about spending on the problems caused by...
View ArticleOops, sorry, PayPal tells customers
Not being able to take your customers’ money is a bad, bad feeling. So it’s no wonder the folks at PayPal were so sorry recently when their system crashed — twice. The service, which accounts for more...
View ArticleAmazon’s mea culpa
Amazon’s recent cloud services outage prompted lots of hand-wringing about the capability of cloud services to provide uninterrupted access to data and services. For its part, Amazon’s apologizing and...
View ArticleCost when ‘system’s down’: $5,000 a minute
Obviously, no company want its data center to go down. But just how much is lost during those outages? In most cases, the costs add up by the thousands of dollars for every minute the outage lasts. On...
View ArticleBlackBerry woes mount
Legions of finance folk depend on their BlackBerry to keep them in touch with work, but parent company Research in Motion’s fallen on tough times in recent years — a situation that leaves users...
View ArticleWhat’s the biggest security threat in the Cloud?
Many companies are worried about the security of the data they leave in the hands of cloud computing providers. However, some experts warn there’s an ever costlier threat to watch out for. There have...
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