Amazon: $2 million loses

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The outage experienced by the world’s most popular online retailer has highlighted the drastic impact some server downtime can have on business, with the company potentially losing upwards of US$1.8 million during over 2 hours. The site went down around 1:30 in the afternoon EDT on Friday.

Amazon down

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Largest online retailer, Amazon.com, was hit by a technical failure on Friday, with users in various U.S. cities as well as London reporting trouble accessing the site.

Data centers: companies lack redundancy

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Even amidst today’s enlightened business environments, many companies are still leaving their data centers open to severe risk. According to a study released by Osterman Research and sponsored by Neverfail, more than 50 percent of the participants report they are consolidating all of their email servers into a single data center in one geographic location.

Server sellers get modest growth in Q4 2007

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 2.4% year over year to $15.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007 (4Q07), marking the seventh consecutive quarter of positive growth. Worldwide server unit shipments grew 9.0% in 4Q07 when compared with the year-ago period. For the full year 2007, worldwide server revenue grew 3.6% to [...]