Global Stories

UPDATED: IT systems down at Waikato Hospital & DHB, 'cybersecurity incident' confirmed

Waikato Hospital has this morning begun turning outpatients away from scheduled bookings after a major outage affecting its IT and phone systems.

By Sara Barker • 5 min read • Wed, 19th May 2021

Outage

Revealed: COVID-19's impact on internet disruptions

Global internet disruptions have surged by 63% during the COVID-19 pandemic, with ISPs particularly affected, according to a report by ThousandEyes.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Wed, 5th Aug 2020

Data Loss Prevention

Revealed: The cure to network outage-related downtime

It's estimated the average cost per network outage in the United States alone amounts to US$402,542 – with one in ten major outages costing over $1 million.

By Nick Forrester • 3 min read • Tue, 9th Jun 2020

Customer Relationship Management

ANZ firms fail to detect technical issues - until customers report them

Technical issues at many Australian and New Zealand firms go unnoticed until customers report them, revealing weak outage and delay detection methods.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Fri, 13th Mar 2020

Firewalls

Top internet outages of 2019 - ThousandEyes

The most significant of these outages took place over the northern hemisphere summer and disrupted nearly every top tech company in some fashion.

By Staff Writer • 8 min read • Wed, 15th Jan 2020

Edge Computing

Two key ways to prevent data centre outages

Power loss is still causing significant problems within the industry, according to more than 1600 operators and IT practitioners surveyed.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 5th Jul 2019

DevOps

Azure outage postmortem: Microsoft reveals what happened and why

Headlines around the world have been shouting about Azure's outage - here's MIcrosoft's postmortem on the matter.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 12th Sep 2018

Disaster Recovery

Anatomy of an outage: Understanding the lifecycle of downtime

Businesses face high costs and risks with outages, impacting operations and reputation; understanding all stages is key.

By Eric Vaughn • 7 min read • Thu, 19th Apr 2018

Disaster Recovery

Chaos in the cloud: Majority of organisations moving to the cloud aren't prepared for an outage

The majority of organizations moving to the cloud are unprepared for a cloud outage, according to a new study by Veritas.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Mon, 19th Mar 2018

Storage

Amazon's AWS S3 suffers failure - Slack, Medium and Quora all affected

Major outage strikes Amazon's AWS, leading to widespread disruption for Slack, Medium, and Quora among others.

By Sam Worthington • 2 min read • Wed, 1st Mar 2017

Disaster Recovery

Cloud disaster recovery confidence up, but challenges remain

Confidence in cloud-based disaster recovery is growing, but risks, outages and downtime costs are still posing challenges for enterprises.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016

Distributed Denial of Service

DDos dramatically increasing cause of data center outages

Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalating.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 26th Jan 2016

Unified Communications

Vodafone network down and out

Customers nationwide using the 2G, 3G and 4G network may be having difficulty making and receiving calls, TXTs and using data.

By Shannon Williams • 1 min read • Thu, 16th Apr 2015

Unified Communications

Vodafone fibre cut, call centres down around the country

Vodafone is experiencing an unexpected fibre cut in Auckland, Penrose, and says this is impacting Vodafone call centres nationwide.

By Catherine Knowles • 1 min read • Mon, 16th Feb 2015

Unified Communications

Telecom down…again

Telecom customers in New Zealand face further connection issues, following two outages yesterday, with no compensation offered.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 12th Dec 2012

Stories from Other Regions

Hyperscale

Protecting data centres from fire – your options

Chubb's Pierre Thorne discusses the countless potential implications of a data centre outage, and how to avoid them.

By Pierre Thome • 5 min read • Thu, 21st Mar 2019

DataCentre infrastructure

NAB apologises after nationwide systems outage

NAB apologises for a nationwide technology outage that left customers unable to access banking services for nearly five hours on Saturday due to a power issue.

By Patrick Martlew • 2 min read • Mon, 28th May 2018