downtime in news
RSS downtime in newsDowntime will cost UK companies £715m this year
News The cost of downtime in the UK is set to leap from £565m in 2001 to £715m this year. The figures from the Yankee Group show that as business becomes increasingly focussed on the internet, keeping systems up and running has become even more crucial... [18 Mar 2002]
Egg says sorry - and blames downtime on hardware
News If you have any information on what could have caused this downtime, email us at editorial@silicon.com. Egg issued an apology on Friday afternoon, and has also said it will contact customers individually.silicon.com was tipped off about the issue... [26 Jan 2001]
UK business losing £682m to downtime
News Downtime is set to cost UK businesses 10 million lost man-hours and E970m this year alone, as idle infrastructure and systems failures add to mounting levels of cash haemorrhaging out of the IT department. [10 Sep 2003]
silicon.com downtime
News Having mocked shark-induced net downtime in the past, we now feel suitably ashamed. KPNQwest blames 11-hour downtime on fishing boat http://www.silicon.com/a34504 As you may have noticed silicon.com took a brief, unscheduled holiday this morning... [22 Nov 2001]
Guardian iT takes new approach to web downtime
News Guardian iT says the company will be dedicated to addressing the problem of website downtime, which can cost companies millions in lost revenues and damaged reputation.iXg will offer guaranteed continuous performance and resilience of hosted web... [03 Jul 2000]
Ex Linx boss predicts more downtime for customers
News Linx, the not for profit exchange point for ISPs, is splitting its network in two - spelling worse service and more downtime for smaller customers. Our source believes this will have a negative effect on the resilience of smaller customers at the... [03 Sep 2001]
Novell launches Backup Service to avoid server downtime
News By minimising server downtime, companies will be able to keep networks running at all times and do not have to add traffic to complete backup processes. Novell has launched Backup Service for NetWare, which will allow network administrators to... [11 May 2000]
UK firms pick up £35m bill for ISP downtime
News On average, each website crashes 18 times a month, experiencing 127 minutes of downtime in total. He added that, in some cases, customers should demand to be refunded for revenue lost during periods of downtime. [25 Jul 2001]
Sun sheds light on system downtime
News Most system downtime is due to non-system errors, according to a report published by Sun Microsystems today. The report, called 'Availability - What it means, Why it's important, and How to improve it', found that 40 per cent of system downtime is... [12 Apr 2000]
KPNQwest blames 11-hour downtime on fishing boat
News KPNQwest, the joint venture between KPN and Qwest which operates a high-capacity pan-European network, explained how a fishing trawler severed one of its two cross-channel cables, leading to 11 hours of downtime. [07 Dec 1999]
Microsoft aims for less downtime with Server 2003
News The software giant on Thursday detailed a series of features it has added to Windows Server 2003 to improve the reliability of the server operating system and cut down on the amount of unplanned downtime for servers. [07 Feb 2003]
Cabinet Office website has some downtime
News The period of downtime began on Wednesday morning. According to Cabinet Office webmaster, David Stiffell, the downtime was caused by a network routing problem. The Cabinet Office website was forced offline on Wednesday because of technical problems... [02 Dec 2005]
BT's website improvements cause downtime
News A number of silicon.com readers have voiced their dissatisfaction about recurring downtime on the BT.com website. The company has admitted it has been experiencing problems with the site, but put these down to improvement which have been made to... [06 Mar 2002]
Papers join the downtime craze as Business Continuity falls flat
News A spokesman for the Financial Times said: "We suffered a power cut early this morning. When the servers were restored it was found that they couldn't read some URLs - those starting with www. Most attempts to go to news.ft.com are successful. [25 Jan 2001]
McAfee bolsters SME servers with downtime beater
News The Network Associates-owned company is partnering with Californian software firm PolyServe to launch two low-cost products - McAfee Understudy and McAfee LocalCluster. PolyServe develops software for server clustering and load balancing, and the... [13 Oct 2000]
