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Outage stories

HammondCare chooses Paessler to monitor infrastructure

HammondCare selects Paessler PRTG to monitor IT infrastructure across its network of aged-care facilities in Australia, reducing outages.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Mon, 23rd Jan 2023

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

Global Stories

Outage stories

IT Industry

New Relic releases 2023 Observability Forecast Report

The industry's most extensive observability-focused study has revealed outages cost AUD $11 million annually as tool sprawl persists.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Wed, 13th Sep 2023

Data Protection

Veeam names Dustin Driggs as new CFO

Veeam, the global leader in modern data protection, appoints Dustin Driggs as new CFO, bringing in over 30 years of experience in multinational businesses.

By Tom Raynel • 2 min read • Wed, 22nd Feb 2023

Hyperscale

Cloudflare outage in 19 data centers worldwide due to own error

Cloudflare outage caused by change in resilience project, impacting 50% of requests. No attack involved, says company.

By Jessie Chiang • 3 min read • Wed, 22nd Jun 2022

Network Infrastructure

Vertiv introduces line of redundant power transfer switches

Vertiv has introduced Vertiv Geist Rack Transfer Switch (RTS), a new line of transfer switches that provides redundant power to single-corded devices.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Wed, 15th Jun 2022

Data Analytics

New Uptime analysis highlights worsening downtime costs and consequences

Downtime costs are increasing as data infrastructure struggles to curb failures, according to new data from Uptime Institute.

By Mitchell Hageman • 3 min read • Fri, 10th Jun 2022

Outage

Technologists need better visibility into IT performance to avoid more high profile outages

'If it can happen to Facebook, it could happen to us.' This will be the concern in IT departments all over the world.

By Joe Byrne • 5 min read • Tue, 7th Dec 2021

Advanced Persistent Threat Protection

Report: Organisations must be proactive, not reactive when it comes to security

83% of companies suffer business damage during the first day of an IT outage, according to new research from Netenrich.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 1st Nov 2021

Fintech

Xero plagued by systems issues at worst possible time of month for customers

Xero is experiencing major systems issues coinciding with end of month invoicing, creating disruption for customers worldwide.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 1st Oct 2021

Distributed Denial of Service

What is an internet outage?

As more essential services are delivered digitally, availability becomes the most pressing concern, writes Cisco ThousandEyes solutions architect Mike Hicks.

By Mike Hicks • 5 min read • Mon, 6th Sep 2021

Cybersecurity

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