IT Blog News broke this morning of an outage for users of the Sidekick mobile smartphone, in which T-Mobile warned users of the device not to power down their phones, or personal data would be irretrievably lost thanks to a server outage at Danger, a Microsoft subsidiary that supports the Sidekick. Meanw...
IT Blog News broke this morning of an outage for users of the Sidekick mobile smartphone, in which T-Mobile warned users of the device not to power down their phones, or personal data would be irretrievably lost thanks to a server outage at Danger, a Microsoft subsidiary that supports the Sidekick. Meanw...
IT Blog EMC officials are saying today that a new blog post, which cites an anonymous source as saying an EMC storage area network (SAN) was involved in the recent Sidekick outage, is inaccurate. According to the blog post, which appeared at RoughlyDrafted Magazine: To the engineers familiar with Microsoft...
IT Blog Another busy week, and I make my triumphant (if slightly raspy) return to the podcast. [display_podcast] (0:23) Hitachi implicated in Sidekick outage EMC denies blog claim that its SAN was involved in Sidekick outage Microsoft says it has recovered Sidekick data (1:42) Storage clouds gather over ...
IT Blog The Sidekick data-loss debaclemay be drawing to a close. According to a post on Microsoft's website by corporate vice president Roz Ho, We are pleased to report that we have recovered most, if not all, customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage. We pl...
IT Blog Amazon would like to remind you to thank them for the heightened expectations. So a Web app running on a telecom service goes belly up and cloud is moribund yet again. That seems to be the latest version of the slightly overheated cloud marketing machine this week. It may be that the end user cann...
IT Blog According to reports out of the U.K. yesterday, Barclays ATM machines stopped working Tuesday because of a fault with one of its disk arrays. The exact nature of the problem has not been specified, but the company is publicly known as a customer of Hitachi Data Systems' (HDS) USP-V. HDS supplied a ...