News (206)

  • Westpac outage affects 200,000 customers

    At the time of writing, the front page of Westpac's Web site is currently out of action, causing angst for customers around the country.

  • Virgin Blue IT crash leaves passengers stranded

    A 45 minute outage of Virgin Blue's check-in system last night left passengers stranded for several hours.

  • Optus still in the dark on outage

    Optus has still not pinpointed the cause of the mobile network outage which occurred on Friday, affecting 3G data services as well as voice.

  • Optus problems run to porting

    Optus has run into problems again with its mobile phone network after a software upgrade over the weekend broke the carrier's ability to port some numbers to or from the network.

  • Optus outage; as CFO promoted

    Optus customers in Sydney and Melbourne today had problems accessing their 3G wireless broadband services as another outage dogged the carrier.

Blogs (1)

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Welcome to Disaster Recovery

    Welcome to Disaster Recovery, Iain Ferguson and Steven Deare's behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on in enterprise technology.

Features and Case Studies (31)

  • Datacentre 2020: Data security gets physical

    In 2020, datacentres are estimated to be cleaner, greener and more flexible but will they be any safer?

  • Autodesk: Billy Hinners, CIO

    Billy Hinners, CIO of Autodesk speaks to ZDNet Editor-in-chief Dan Farber about creating design software for its eight million customers in the construction, media and manufacturing industries. He also talks about the company's green strategy, his 20 years in product development and transitioning to his new role as CIO.

  • Business continuity: 10 things you should know

    Business continuity is much more than just a fancy word for "backup" although some organisations treat it that way. A comprehensive business continuity plan provides a roadmap for continuance and/or restoration of mission-critical functions during and after a disaster. Here are 10 things a good BCP includes.

  • How Telstra recovered when BlackBerry went pear-shaped

    Many times, service providers don't know anything has gone wrong until they're hit by a flood of user complaints. Such was the case for Telstra when its BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in Sydney came crashing down one day.

  • BMC CEO on automating IT, cost management

    BMC Software chief executive Bob Beauchamp on the revenge of the CFO and unravelling business' "ugliest ball of yarn."

Reviews (5)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Broadband: Which plan is for you?

    The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

  • Lean machines: making thin clients really cook

    ZDNet Australia shows you how to save money and keep staff happy with thin clients.

Create an e-mail alert for "affected"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
affected


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

Back to top

Featured