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[...] Microsoft has now revealed that source of its troubles: mildly warm weather. That day in Dublin, where Microsoft's North Europe data center resides, the high temperature reached a pleasant 18°C or about 64°F in Freedom Units.
[...] Microsoft's Azure status history explains, "On 19 Jun 2018, Data Center Critical Environments systems in one of our data centers in the North Europe region experienced an increase in outside air temperature."
[...] Azure customers who rely on the North Europe region may want to make sure they have outage plans in place. By next Friday, the weather forecast in Dublin anticipates temperatures as high as 24°C or 75°F.
According to a 2016 study by Emerson Network Power and the Ponemon Institute, about 12 per cent of data center outages can be attributed to weather, with the remainder being human and mechanical error.
It was an 11 hours disruption.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @10:58AM
Sounds like a fun game. Start off as a level 1 trojan, eat the secret keys and electrocute A+ goons through the USB ports until you level up enough to to escape into corporate headquarters. After collapsing Gates' smart house and taking control of a nuclear submarine, it's time to hack SETI so you can get to the secret musky level hidden in the tapes in the trunk of that space-car.