Jan 29
Trying to kill a potential problem at the roots even before it grows, ARM Holdings has released a new Server Base System Architecture standard. This document will server as the … Continue reading
Jan 29
The fact that the ARM architecture is finally breaking into other spaces beyond mobile devices is proven by this latest piece of news. AMD has just announced the Opteron A1100, … Continue reading
Jan 23
Lenovo has inked a deal to buy IBM’s x86 server business, taking Big Blue’s Intel-based hardware division off its hands for $2.3bn. The two companies will also kick off a … Continue reading
Dec 20
ARM server startup and Intel threat Calxeda has unexpectedly shut down, after running out of cash before it could convince the enterprise that lots of smaller chips made better sense. … Continue reading
Nov 25
Microsoft has issued a service alert informing the Xbox Live gaming community that social and gaming for Xbox One is down. As of this moment and until further notice from Xbox, you will not be able to join online games with other members. The alert was issued a little after noon Central Time today. The […]
Nov 18
Battlefield 4 gamers have had a rough time over the last few days, with a string of DDoS attacks having taken place over the weekend. The PC game took a hit, and the problem rolled over into various crashes and issues affecting PlayStation 4 gamers. The attackers are yet unknown, but they went after EA’s […]
Nov 18
YouTube went down today for about 30 minutes, a rare occurrence for Google’s flagship streaming video service. Between about 5:20PM and 5:50PM Eastern Time, the site could not be reached. This included embedded videos in websites (this one, for example.) Anyone attempting to visit the YouTube website saw a 500 internal server error message. This […]
Nov 15
You can buy pretty much anything from Sears, but we doubt it’s your first-choice destination for server capacity. That’s likely to change if Ubiquity Critical Environments, the company’s IT infrastructure arm, gets its way. The outfit is considering turning old Sears Auto Centers into server farms that’ll offer services to mission-critical IT projects for enterprise customers. Guess it’s high time we learned how to do our own oil changes.
Via: Slashdot
Source: Data Center Knowledge
Sep 12
Vodafone has confirmed that hackers have accessed its servers in Germany, gaining access to personal information and bank details of approximately two million customers. The operator says the breach was a “highly sophisticated and illegal intrusion” that it believes was masterminded by an insider — and indeed a suspect has already been identified and handed over to police. It’s not often you hear about a successful raid on a mobile operator, which is why Vodafone believes it could only have been conducted by someone with an “inside knowledge of [its] most secure internal systems.” Vodafone customers outside of Germany aren’t affected, and those inside the country should already have been contacted. The company says credit card information, mobile phone numbers, passwords and PIN numbers were not accessed in the attack, although Vodafone is warning customers to be especially vigilant about potential phishing attacks in the future.
Filed under: Wireless
Via: Bloomberg
Aug 26
It seems that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has run into a bunch of issues, which would mean folks who wanted to spend the rest of today checking things out on Instagram or Vine in a leisurely manner would have had a rather rocky road to walk. Both services were apparently offline for more than an hour, and Instagram was the first between the two to acknowledge its issues on Twitter, while Vine was not too far behind – in less than an hour later, Vine too, reported that they had run into a brick wall themselves.
You could say that the “first flood” of tweets complaining about both services’ downtime begun at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern time, and needless to say, it only increased in intensity as users realized that they were unable to share photos of their food or carefully directed short videos (or some really crazy videos, it doesn’t matter). It seems that other services which also rely on AWS, namely Netflix, IFTTT, Heroku and Airbnb too, have run into similar outage issues earlier today. Instagram and Vine have already gotten their act together since, and it seems that the Netflix outage, too, is on its way to recovery, but IFTTT’s website still remains out of commission. Apparently, Amazon’s north Virginia data center seemed to be the cause of the problem, but it seems that these issues have been locked down and have been worked out already.
AWS Server Issues Affect Instagram, Vine, Airbnb And IFTTT original content from Ubergizmo. 
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