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The Year in Downtime: The Top 10 Outages of 2013

Fires. Floods. Power problems. Software updates gone bad. Thermal events. There was a wide range of causes for data center downtime in 2013. The year’s major outages covered the spectrum, affecting clouds, companies, payment networks and governments at the federal, state and local level. Continue reading

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Strong Uptime for Online Retailers as Holiday Shopping Kicks Off

There were no major outages during the kickoff of the holiday shopping season, but several trends emerged. People are shopping earlier and increasingly using mobile devices for their purchases. Continue reading

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