IBM Cloud TITSUP: Techies investigate troubling storage underperformance

Storage systems in several of IBM's European data centres have been down since the small hours, with engineers battling to fix an unspecified "network-related" problem they identified six hours after the outage began. The IBM Cloud Storage wobble struck this morning at 0525 UTC, a disgruntled customer told El Reg, adding that …

[Anonymous Coward]

A tear in the network fabric architecture?

'Storage systems in several of IBM's European data centres have been down since the small hours, with engineers battling to fix an unspecified "network-related" problem'

Would these network-related problems be in the underlying software defined routers, switches and storage such that there's a tear in the cloud fabric?

[Anonymous Coward]

"...client operations are back to normal."

As bad as that eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe NetApp can use their "Analytics"

to identify the problem since they are the storage behind Softlayer. or Maybe IBM can use Watson...to investigate.

Good luck with that!

[a_yank_lurker]

Maybe

Maybe Idiot Brainless Morons should have kept a few grey hairs around like those who might know a thing or two or three.

[Anonymous Coward]

To have been so good with big iron and have trouble with this....although there are doubtlessly a layer or two of added obscurity between a mainframe and "the cloud". Still, as stated above, keeping a few grey beards around would be wise.

[Anonymous Coward]

1998 - You don't get fired for buying IBM.

2018 - You don't have to justify avoiding IBM like the plague.

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, don't buy your drone from The Wright brothers.

[theExecutive]

Not Normal

Data has been restored, erm to last week, all a business has to do is go through a magic time portal, to last week, or face a weeks lost work.

[Dave 13]

War

IBM, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing..

[rotmos]

The same problem in AMS01, AMS03, FRA02, FRA04 and MIL01. Which looks like different availability zones (or whatever IBM calls it) and regions. So it is impossible to build a highly available system with IBM cloud.

Who are their main customers, hobbyists?