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Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage

Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today.
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STORServer enters cloud business

STORServer, a maker of backup appliances, announced private and public cloud backup services.

Update: Google reports Google Drive outage resolved

It was a tough Monday morning for some Google Drive users who had to deal with a service outage that lasted about two hours.

Sepaton releases upgrades to high-end storage appliance

Sepaton today announced its latest update to its enterprise-class data backup appliance, which almost doubles performance and increases connectivity by 2X over its predecessor.

East Coast storm brings blizzard of social tweets and posts

When there's a blizzard approaching, people flock to grocery stores for bread and milk, test their generators...and nowadays take to Twitter and Facebook.

'Black swan' predictions for 2013 include solar storm

If you are making a list of tech predictions for next year, as this story does, it may be a good idea to put the solar maximum on this list. The next one is expected in 2013, says NASA.

Hurricane Sandy leaves wounded servers in its wake

Data recovery experts have been kept busy in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which left a slew of data centers underwater, damaging equipment and threatening a significant loss of business-critical data.

Sandy wounded servers, some grievously, say services firms

Companies that specialize in data recovery are still getting many calls for help from businesses and institutions whose equipment was damaged by the effects of Hurricane Sandy.

From near disaster to shaky recovery in NYC

Hurricane Sandy brought the tide in, literally. But the flooding in lower Manhattan had the same effect on data centers that exposed the problems and shortcomings in the system.

Drama in NYC as data center temp passes 100 degrees

There's real-time drama unfolding at one of the data centers operating at 111 8th Ave. in NYC, a Google-owned building that occupies a full city block.

Data centers under water: What, me worry?

Even most of those hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy are hardening their facilities instead of moving them entirely. In the storm-prone South, however, it's a different story.

Emergency! EN systems alert employees when disaster strikes

Today's emergency notification technology allows enterprises to send out, and employees to receive, real-time situational advisories.

NBA Team Rebounds From IT Disaster

After Katrina, the New Orleans Hornets built a stronger disaster-recovery operation: a hot site with a diesel engine big enough to 'power a locomotive.'

6 CIOs Share Their Strategic Visions for 2013

If your IT organization doesn't have a clear core strategy, it's easy to get caught up in--and spend too much on--technology trends. Learn about six CIOs' strategies for 2013 and see how they compare to your plans for the rest of the year.

Bart Perkins: After Superstorm Sandy, an opportunity to be better prepared

The whole point of an information systems contingency plan is to be prepared before catastrophe strikes. Unfortunately, we're all adept at postponing planning.

Disaster recovery: Don't forget mobile

As the mobile workforce continues to grow, IT execs must remember the importance of including mobile technology in their disaster recovery plans. Insider (registration required)

ExaGrid aces disk-to-disk backup

ExaGrid's unique scale-out grid architecture makes for powerful, scalable, and uncomplicated disk-based backup and deduplication

Diary of a disaster: Living off the grid after Superstorm Sandy

Tech writer Brian Nadel lasted 10 days without municipal power in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Here's how he kept heat, lights and computers going and what he'll do differently next time.

Blame game over Amazon outage misses the point

With Amazon.com's most recent outage, cloud detractors and apologists alike missed its real lesson: All technology can fail. Insider (registration required)

ATM fraud refunds may not come quickly, if at all

In early April, A$800 vanished from my account, the result of a late-night withdrawal from a cash machine in a Sydney neighborhood I'd never been to before.