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Storage reliability questioned after high profile outages | | 2009/08/11 | | The reliability of data storage facilities and managed hosting services has been brought into question following a series of high-profile internet outages, it has been claimed.
According to Computer World, downtime experienced by Equinix and Primus has raised doubts about both security and reliability of such facilities and their website monitoring services.
Internet service provider Primus, which is based in Australia, suffered several hours of downtime as a result of a sub-station fault which prevented a back-up generator from starting.
The outage followed hot on the heels of data storage provider Equinix's Sydney operation going down.
Carlo Minassian, managing director of earthwave, told the news provider that such outages highlight the need for regular testing and website monitoring.
"It shows they don't have the right test procedures and have not validated their infrastructure to work in the event of a disaster," he added.
Recently, a denial of service attack brought down social networking website Twitter.
It is believed that similar attacks were levelled at Facebook and LiveJournal at the same time. |
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