Severe thunderstorms in Perth disrupt operations for Fujitsu clients; downtime frustrates Ghana LTE provider's users

Construction workers evacuate without incident; no cause reported

Vantage’s operations exec lists steps to prepare data center campus for extreme weather

Data center designers have generally gotten reliability right ... except for that rare occasion when a truck runs into a power transformer or a ship drops an anchor onto a submarine cable.

A major fire at a Samsung data center in Gwacheon, South Korea Sunday morning caused a data outage for users Samsung devices, including smart TVs, phones and tablets.

The streaming service crashed just after 9 p.m. last night, just as millions of users were tuning in for the eagerly-awaited premiere of season 4 of "Game of Thrones."

It was a rough weekend for uptime, with significant outages at UK hosting provider FastHosts and the startup news portal Hacker News.

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. Here’s our list of the Top 10...

Unplanned data center outages are expensive, and getting more costly. A new study sponsored by Emerson Network Power reveals that the cost of downtime has increased 41 percent since an original 2010 study.