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• Sydney power outage kills e-health systems

  Doctors in hospitals within Sydney's west had to temporarily turn back to pen and paper on Saturday when their electronic health record systems went offline, while more lost access to email.

• SF power outage crashes major Web sites

  A power outage hit downtown San Francisco Tuesday afternoon local time, leaving the area without power and knocking popular Web sites such as Craigslist, GameSpot, Yelp, Technorati, TypePad and Netflix offline for a few hours.

• Power outage downs Di Data keynote

  A power outage in Queensland caused disruption to a keynote address this morning at Dimension Data's annual conference in Coolum.

• Another Primus outage hits Melbourne

  A three-hour outage suffered by Primus' Melbourne datacentre over the weekend was due to a backup generator failing to start, according to the telco's managing director Ravi Bhartia.

• MySpace feels the heat

  All talk of global warming aside, the record-breaking heat wave that knocked out power infrastructures throughout California will probably be best remembered for making MySpace.com look really bad.

Blogs (2)

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  Silence of the IBM

  Having one of your biggest customers roast you in the media as "slow to react to a catastrophic systems failure" and "unwilling to apologise" for it is not a good look for IBM New Zealand.

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  Are you ready for a crash landing?

  Backup plans are almost ubiquitous -- and a good thing too. But have you checked the use-by date on yours?

Features and Case Studies (40)

• Researchers: Pull plug on battery attacks

  A team of computer scientists is working to prevent new types of denial-of-service attacks aimed at battery-powered mobile devices.

• Establishing a server triage policy

  When a crisis or full-fledged disaster happens, every department will argue that it needs to be brought back online first. How do you choose? Here are some guidelines for helping you make the best decision.

• Working in IT: 10 dirty little secrets

  If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the "dirty little secrets" may surprise you because we don't usually talk about them out loud.

• Server room power: Plan for redundancy and flexibility

  How can power can be supplied to a server room more efficiently? Also, some basic guidelines on such areas as long-term planning, voltage and amperage, and physical cabling.

• Changing of the guard: Commonwealth Bank

  Get an insider's look at Commonwealth Bank of Australia's technology operation with chief information officer Michael Harte in the first of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

Reviews (15)

• MSN Messenger goes dark

  Microsoft's Instant Messenger service went down early Monday, affecting up to 75 million people worldwide who sign on to the service to chat with friends and co- workers.

• Linksys CIT400 Skype Phone

  The Linksys CIT400 allows you to make both land-line and Skype calls, all without a PC.

• Power Protection

  Most computer users are vigilant when it comes to the possibility of virus attacks and other technological threats. There is, however, one potential disaster that can strike anywhere, anytime, that's not taken seriously by some - the possibility of a power outage. A preventative UPS device is much more valuable than an expensive cure.

• Mobile phones fail calamity test, again

  Mobile phone services once again failed to step up in the face of calamity. The failure of the mobile networks, perceived by many to be especially useful in times of emergency, forced callers back onto land lines.

• APC Proves Small Is Smart

  American Power Conversion's low-end Smart-UPS incorporates a slim 3.5-inch form factor with ample power capacity to accommodate mission-critical power needs in today's space-conscious data centers.

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