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Looking for Disaster Recovery Tutorials?

Administrator — 2008-10-29T15:14:51+00:00

If you've been looking for some tutorials to get you started with the IT Disaster Recovery Planning process for your organisation, then you'll be pleased to know that a new site has been launched to provide just that kind of help.

EnergyAustrlia Data Lost Due To Backup Problems

Gareth Eagar — 2007-01-26T15:25:15+00:00

EnergyAustralia experienced a SAN hardware problem in December 2006 that required restoring of files from backup. When trying to do the restore though, they found that about a quarter of the total files (about 1.2 million files) were missing.

New Year's Eve Computer Outage affects Visa Credit Cards

Gareth Eagar — 2007-01-13T08:49:13+00:00

According to computing.co.uk , a computer glitch meant thousands of UK customers could not use their VISA cards on New Years Eve. Other articles indicated that customers were also unable to draw money from their VISA credit and debit cards, unless they were using their own banks ATM machines.

Disaster Recovery one of the top focus areas for SMB's in 2007

Gareth Eagar — 2007-01-07T21:46:00+00:00

According to the Yankee Group's 2006 US Small and Medium Business IT Infrastructure Survey (Oct 2006), the top concerns for SMB's in 2007 will be security, backup and restore and application and data availability.

Apple iTunes store slow under heavy Christmas load

Gareth Eagar — 2006-12-30T12:41:56+00:00

It appears that the Apple iTunes store couldn't handle the load of users trying to download music and video on 25 - 26 December 2006 and slowed to a practically unusable level for many users.

According to reports, songs that normally took 1 - 2 minutes to download were taking up to 20 minutes, while some users were getting error messages indicating that their request could not be completed and some could not even login to the store at all.

Microsoft Xbox Live Outage

Gareth Eagar — 2006-12-28T15:36:38+00:00

According to a blog post at Xbox 360 Fanboy , the Microsoft Xbox live service was down for a few hours on 27 December, 2006. At this stage, there are no details on what went wrong, but it seems that anyone wanting to play online games for those few hours was out of luck.

According to the Major Nelson blog (written by a member of the Microsoft Xbox team) anyone trying to get into a game (matchmaking) were unable to do so and he had this confirmed by the Xbox Live ops team.

US Military Health System looses some patient encounter data

Gareth Eagar — 2006-12-17T10:37:44+00:00

The US Military Health System (MHS) has lost close to 5,000 records relating to patient encounters, due to software and hardware problems. An incorrect database setting resulted in 3,586 records being lost and a hardware issue caused a further 1,400 records to be lost.

Royal Bank of Canda faces class action lawsuit after software upgrade problem

Gareth Eagar — 2006-12-11T17:06:21+00:00

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) had a system outage in late May / early June 2004, after performing a software upgrade. As a result, millions of customers were inconvenienced when their transactions did not reflect in their accounts for up to a week. Now the Quebec Superior Court has ruled that a class action lawsuit relating to the outage may proceed.

Open Directory Project Website Broken for over 7 weeks

Gareth Eagar — 2006-12-09T23:09:47+00:00

The Open Directory Project (ODP), which is the 'largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web' is broken and has been for the past 7 weeks. Apparently they experienced a 'technical problem' around 20 October 2006 and have not been able to recover fully from it yet (9 December 2006).

CA delivers comprehensive recovery management with integrated backup, BC and DR software

Gareth Eagar — 2006-12-05T22:00:00+00:00

CA today introduced a new recovery management solution that helps customers ensure protection, recoverability and uninterrupted access to critical business information by combining continuous data protection (CDP), business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities into one easy-to-manage package.