Data centre downtime news stories

Honeywell
Data center facility managers plagued with downtime concerns - Honeywell report
54% have experienced downtime due to an outage, 38% due to a cyber or physical breach, and 34% had unplanned downtime.

Fire
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.

Network Infrastructure
How to keep network infrastructure secure and available
Two OVH executives have weighed in on how network infrastructure and the challenges in that space will be evolving in the coming year.

Internet
Downtime a crippling issue in APAC State of Wi-Fi Study
Ruckus has released findings from its study of 1200 organizations in APAC who collectively have lost US$53m from downtime in the last 12 months.

Visa
Visa’s cockup put down to ‘very rare’ data centre crash
51.2 million Visa payments failed to process on Friday 1 June (just in time for after-work drinks) and the company says it all came down to a switch.