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Syria Experiences 20-Hour Internet Blackout
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published May 08, 2013
Many experts believe the government shut down Internet access.
Tags: outage, Internet, downtime, Syria
Another Cloud Goes Down: Google Drive Experiences Outage
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published March 18, 2013
Many users who try to access Google's cloud-based storage service are getting error messages.
Tags: Google, Cloud, outage, Storage, Google Drive
Hotmail, Outlook.com, SkyDrive Experience Service Disruptions
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published March 13, 2013
For 17 hours, users' messages were "lost in the mail."
Tags: cloud computing, email, Microsoft, outage, Hotmail, SkyDrive, Outlook.com
Google+ Experiences Outage
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published February 18, 2013
No one seems to notice when the "other" social network goes down.
Tags: social network, outage, downtime, google+
Facebook Bug 'Breaks the Internet'
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published February 08, 2013
Many websites were temporarily inaccessible due to a problem with Facebook Connect.
Tags: Facebook, Web, outage, Internet, bug
Amazon.com Suffers an Outage
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published February 01, 2013
Were hackers responsible for the downtime?
Tags: Amazon, outage, hackers, retail, downtime
Twitter Suffers Another Outage
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published January 31, 2013
This was the service's third outage this month.
Tags: server, Web, Twitter, outage, social networking, service, downtime
Amazon's Cloud Causes Holiday Outages for Netflix, Others
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published December 26, 2012
This was the third major outage for Amazon Web Services this year.
Tags: cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, outage
Facebook and Gmail Go Down on the Same Day
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published December 11, 2012
Both services are now functioning normally.
Tags: Facebook, Google, Cloud, outage, Chrome, Gmail, downtime
Google Experiences Outage in China
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published November 12, 2012
Observers believe the Chinese government is blocking Google's services in the country.
Tags: Google, search, outage, China, censorship, Gmail, Google Play
Sandy's Aftermath Hampers Communications on the East Coast
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published October 31, 2012
The agency's chairman said the "communications outages could get worse before they get better."
Tags: outage, mobile, FCC, cell phone, communications
Superstorm Sandy Knocks Out Data Centers, Websites
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published October 30, 2012
Gawker, Buzzfeed, and the Huffington Post reported storm-related outages.
Tags: outage, social media, websites, downtime, data centers, Storm
Amazon Web Services Experiences Outage
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published October 23, 2012
The temporary downtime knocked popular websites like Reddit, Github, Pinterest, Foursquare and others offline.
Tags: cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, outage, EC2, downtime
RIM Hit by BlackBerry Outage
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published September 21, 2012
Customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa report outages.
Tags: outage, Blackberry, smartphone, RIM, EMEA
GoDaddy: Service Outage Was Our Fault, Not Hacking
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published September 12, 2012
Although a hacker claimed responsibility, the hosting provider said the outage was actually due to networking problems.
Tags: outage, networking, GoDaddy, hacktivism, hack attacks, Anonymous
GoDaddy Says Service Restored After Web Outage
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published September 11, 2012
Hackers associated with Anonymous have taken credit for the attack that knocked many small business websites offline.
Tags: website, outage, GoDaddy, small business, Web hosting, hacktivism, hack attacks, Anonymous
Wikipedia Suffers Temporary Outage
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published August 06, 2012
The site blamed "networking issues" for the problems.
Tags: outage, networking, downtime, Wikipedia
Twitter Apologizes for Outage Ahead of Olympics
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published July 27, 2012
The micro-blogging service blames downtime on infrastructure problems.
Tags: Twitter, outage, downtime, Olympics
Google Talk Goes Down for Most Users
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published July 26, 2012
After going down for several hours, the service is beginning to come back online.
Tags: Google, outage, Gmail, IM, downtime, google+, Google Talk
Salesforce.com Suffers Worldwide Disruption after Power Outage
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published July 10, 2012

Tags: cloud computing, outage, CRM, Salesforce, downtime
A Summer Storm's Disruption Is Felt in the Technology Cloud
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published July 02, 2012
East Coast storms knocked out Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram and other Web services that rely on Amazon's cloud.
Tags: cloud computing, Web services, Amazon, outage, downtime
Twitter Crashes Hard, Internet Freaks Out
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published June 22, 2012
The microblogging service experienced its longest outage in eight months.
Tags: Twitter, outage, downtime
Cloud Failures Cost $70M-Plus Since 2007, Researchers Say
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published June 19, 2012
On average, cloud services experience 7.5 hours of downtime per year.
Tags: cloud computing, outage, downtime, report
Gmail Outage Likely Hit Several Million on Thursday
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published June 08, 2012
Google's e-mail service went down for more than 90 minutes.
Tags: Google, outage, Gmail, e-Mail, downtime
Gmail Experiences Brief Outage
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published April 18, 2012
Google says that less than 10 percent of the users of its email service experienced downtime on Tuesday.
Tags: email, Google, outage, Gmail
Facebook Back Up After Europe Outage
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published March 07, 2012
The social network blames "technical difficulties" for the loss of service.
Tags: Facebook, outage
Microsoft Azure Stabilizes After Leap Year Glitch
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published March 01, 2012
Some customers of the cloud computing platform experienced outages yesterday due to a software bug related to leap day.
Tags: cloud computing, outage, Microsoft Azure
BlackBerry Freebie: RIM Apps to Placate for Outage
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published October 17, 2011
The beleaguered smartphone maker offers users $100 worth of premium apps plus free tech support to make up for its service outage.
Tags: outage, BlackBerry Apps
BlackBerry Services Come Slowly Sputtering Back
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published October 13, 2011
RIM says service has been restored in some parts of the world, but the outage is not fully resolved.
Tags: outage, RIM
BlackBerry Service Issues Spread to U.S. and Canada
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published October 12, 2011
The smartphone maker blames the outage on a faulty backup switch.
Tags: outage, BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry Services Collapse Overseas
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published October 10, 2011
RIM customers and service providers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are reporting outages.
Tags: outage, BlackBerry OS
Microsoft Restores Services After Crash Affects Millions Worldwide
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published September 09, 2011
Last night, Office 365, MSN.com, Live@edu and Windows Live Hotmail went down for users in Europe and Asia.
Tags: cloud computing, Microsoft, outage
Skype Updates for Outage Flaw
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published May 27, 2011
Skype fixes flaw that prevents users from signing into the VoIP service.
Tags: Linux, Microsoft, outage, VoIP, Skype Manager
Amazon Describes Cloud Outage Fix - Apologizes
By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published May 02, 2011
The company says its recent outage was due to a manual configuration error, that only a little data was lost, and apologizes to customers who were impacted.
Tags: cloud computing, Amazon, Amazon EC2, security, outage
Microsoft Cops to Cloud Computing Platform Outage
By Stuart J. Johnston | Article Published August 25, 2010
What happens when you put your business in the cloud and then the cloud goes down? An undisclosed number of Microsoft Online Services customers were confronted with just that problem for two hours on Monday.
Tags: cloud computing, Microsoft, outage, cloud content management, BPOS