Queues, abandoned baggage and headline reports this weekend have shown that, following incidents in 2018, 2019 and 2022, Manchester Airport appears to have failed to learn lessons from previous power cuts and delays. Yesterday, chaos reigned after there ‘had been a “fault” with a cable on the airport’s site, which sent a surge of power […]
It’s always an exciting day at Cambridge Risk Solutions when the Uptime Institute’s Global Data Centre Survey is released, and this year is no exception! This year’s survey presents a nuanced picture, where the incidence of outages appears to be falling but the cost of outages continues to rise. The headline figure of data centre
The most recent annual “Causes and Impacts of Data Centre Outages” report by the Uptime Institute gives a fascinating snapshot of the industry. Key findings include: The frequency of data centre outages continues to be a source of concern for both customers and operators: Power issues remain the most common cause of disruption but constitute
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Yesterday morning, millions of websites were off-line as fire raged through a data centre in Strasbourg. OVH is the fourth largest web-hosting provider in Europe (after AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud), and operates four data centres on the Strasbourg site. One 500m2 data centre was destroyed and another was damaged in the blaze; the
My attention was captured yesterday by an interview on the Radio 4 Today Programme with the CEO of National Grid. In the course of explaining the background to the widespread power outages last Friday, he first described the almost simultaneous loss of two producers of this scale as “rare, unique” and later as “pretty unique”.
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Hundreds of passengers faced delays and disruption on Tuesday evening when Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport lost power. Power was restored within a few hours but, whilst the power cut lasted, passengers could not check in and planes could not be unloaded. Luckily, due to the time of day, it was possible to divert some
Last week attention was drawn once again to BA’s major IT outage back in May, which left tens of thousands of passengers stranded; when their owner, IAG, announced its half-year results. There were various predictions of the cost of the disruption around the £100m mark at the time of the incident, but IAG announced that
