IBM Cloud’s biggest region hit by five-hour Severity One brownout
(2021/05/20)
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The Register noticed the offer when logging in to check on a new Severity One incident that hit IBM’s cloud on Wednesday, US time.
The incident kicked off at 21:20 UTC on May 19th and meant “Users may experience issues accessing services in the US-South region”. US-South is in Dallas, Texas, hosts ten data centres plus one of IBM’s two Federal Data Centers.
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While the reason for the problem was identified in literally one minute, according to IBM’s incident report, full service was not restored until 02:16 UTC on May 20th.
Three hours elapsed between notification of the outage and advice that “most services” had recovered. Cloudy DB2 users had to wait longer than others to enjoy restored services.
As The Register was logging in to review updates to the incident report, we spotted the following.
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Clicking on the offer to post a review took us to a site The Register won’t name, because doing so would suggest that we’re swiping at a company that could be considered a competitor.
The page states the gift cards are for current IBM customers only, who “Must rate and review at least one IBM product … using an account verified using LinkedIn or a work email address.”
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“Gift card eligibility does not depend on the opinions you express,” the page states.
Which is probably just as well because IBM cloud users may find it hard to be positive given the company’s cloud had five Severity One issues in April 2021 alone, one of which was a recurrence of a problem previously deemed to have been solved. Today’s incident is the second Severity One issue in May 2021. ®
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The Register noticed the offer when logging in to check on a new Severity One incident that hit IBM’s cloud on Wednesday, US time.
The incident kicked off at 21:20 UTC on May 19th and meant “Users may experience issues accessing services in the US-South region”. US-South is in Dallas, Texas, hosts ten data centres plus one of IBM’s two Federal Data Centers.
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While the reason for the problem was identified in literally one minute, according to IBM’s incident report, full service was not restored until 02:16 UTC on May 20th.
Three hours elapsed between notification of the outage and advice that “most services” had recovered. Cloudy DB2 users had to wait longer than others to enjoy restored services.
As The Register was logging in to review updates to the incident report, we spotted the following.
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Click to enlarge
Clicking on the offer to post a review took us to a site The Register won’t name, because doing so would suggest that we’re swiping at a company that could be considered a competitor.
The page states the gift cards are for current IBM customers only, who “Must rate and review at least one IBM product … using an account verified using LinkedIn or a work email address.”
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“Gift card eligibility does not depend on the opinions you express,” the page states.
Which is probably just as well because IBM cloud users may find it hard to be positive given the company’s cloud had five Severity One issues in April 2021 alone, one of which was a recurrence of a problem previously deemed to have been solved. Today’s incident is the second Severity One issue in May 2021. ®
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I am still an IBM "Cloud Customer"
Anonymous Coward
10 years ago I signed up to a DB2 service for a quick proof of concept.
Took a mornings work then signed off.
10 or so years later the account is still active (although suspended as the backing credit card expired eight years ago).
I have found no way to actually cancel the account apart from an expensive international call to an 0800 number.
If you have the misfortune to be an IBM shareholder at the next shareholders meeting I would raise the question of how they come up with such
a large number of customers for a not very popular service.
21:20 UTC on May 19th -->> 02:16 UTC on May 20th
The 21st Century equivalent of the time taken to re-boot your pc after a crash.