Service vendor caused Polaris blackoutPolaris has blamed a high-profile datacentre outage on an equipment vendor who was performing on-site scheduled maintenance.February 28, 2011 by Darren Pauli in Data Centers
Weather severs Telstra Bass Strait cableA Telstra Bass Strait fibre link from Tasmania to Victoria went down today after severe weather severed the cable.January 14, 2011 by Darren Pauli in Data Centers
Disaster recovery is a disaster: SymantecMore than half of Australian and New Zealand IT professionals have experienced a cyber attack in the last year that has brought IT services to a halt for an average of 38 hours, according to a report.November 22, 2010 by Darren Pauli in Data Centers
Power cut to NBN data hostThe $220 million datacentre that will host data critical to the National Broadband Network lost power on Friday after a suspected switching error cut supply lines.February 27, 2011 by Darren Pauli in Data Centers
Polaris datacentre traced to PillerBotched scheduled maintenance of a diesel generator and a separate concurrent review of the generators has been blamed for crippling the $220 million Polaris datacentre last week.March 2, 2011 by Darren Pauli in Data Centers