‘Problems with hard drives mainly due to aging’
Problems with hard drives are mainly caused by aging drives. This concludes cloud backup and storage specialist Backblaze in its annual survey of its own non-working hard drives.
The backup and storage specialist annually investigates what causes hard drives to experience problems This is based ... Read more
European GPS system Galileo still offline
According to CloudPro, Galileo, the EU's GPS system and the European Space Agency (ESA), has not been online with any satellite since Friday. It is not yet clear exactly what the cause of the failure is, except that it is said to be an incident related to the infrastructure on the ground, according ... Read more
Salesforce hit by major failure after database error
Salesforce experienced one of its biggest breakdowns ever last weekend, after the company was forced to shut down large parts of its infrastructure.
The problem arose after Salesforce made a change in its production environment. This broke the access rights settings within organisations, giving empl... Read more
Ericsson’s software problem causes global smartphone malfunctions
Due to a problem with software in Ericsson equipment, there are worldwide failures in networks for mobile phones. TechCrunch reports that O2 users in Great Britain and SoftBank users in Japan, among others, are affected by this.
Due to the disruptions, it is not possible for users of the affected ne... Read more
Amazon Alexa had temporary connection problems in Europe
Amazon had problems with his Echo speakers yesterday. In Europe, hundreds of reports were made of problems with the speakers, which did not want to connect. Now everything is working again, reports Reuters.
With Amazon Alexa, users can use voice commands to control smart devices in their homes, play... Read more