Cloud Outages News Today

Recommendations to address emerging issues in cyber-incident response management and communications for nuclear facilities, including public misinformation and the potential sabotage of emergency response efforts

Despite best efforts by CIOs to avoid cloud outages, the inevitable happens. Safe recovery is possible, and efforts are less stressful with proper planning.

‘There has not been enough time spent thinking and studying the long-term effects of climate change on cloud [computing] and network resiliency.’

The cloud is growing, but cloud outages are nothing new. And neither are we. InformationWeek was first founded in 1985 and our online archives go back to 1998. Here are just a few lowlights from the cloud's worst moments, dug up from our archives.

From the outermost edge of extreme networks to the center of the energy vortex, emerging technologies are set to permanently end cloud outages.

Perhaps the most important things to do are to understand the operational vulnerabilities that could arise with a particular outage and keep pressure on the providers to improve their processes to avoid future outages.

Given the expensive consequences of even relatively short cloud outages, legal action is inevitable in some instances. Companies have to determine whether they actually have a case and if it even makes sense from a business perspective to engage in a legal battle.

InformationWeek and Network Computing teams tackle cloud outages, cloud costs, cloud providers and other pressing issues concerning IT leaders

Outages are too common, and when they happen, they can cause massive disruptions for businesses. So how can you ensure that your business is safe in the cloud?