Due to standard maintenance on a storage cluster node this morning at around 09:30, we’ve received reports of issues on some cloud2.blacknight.ie VMs. The maintenance should not have been service impacting as the storage cluster is fully redundant and we are investigating the cause at present whilst rebooting any VMs which have been affected. We […]
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Interim Update on the Current Security Situation in Relation to Modern CPUs
Summary: Earlier this week we were alerted about a vulnerability that could potentially allow a remote attacker to access privileged memory on servers, desktops etc. We have been working with our vendors in relation to this. What is affected: All services are potentially affected. Every Linux and Windows release is currently vulnerable to these attacks. Our […]
Scheduled maintenance on Cloud1 Control Panel
We are scheduling some critical upgrades to our Cloud1 platform in conjunction with the platform provider OnApp for Wednesday 26th @ 01:00 AM This will involve a software upgrade of the Control Panel which will require it to be taken offline for approximately 2- 3 hours. As access to the control panel is restricted , […]
Scheduled upgrade of Cloud2 storage platform
We are scheduling a software upgrade of our Cloud-2 storage platform to Version 9.1 , in conjunction with the vendor SolidFire which will address some mandatory bug fixes.Version 9.1 is a cumulative update that rolls in fixes from previous Element OS versions. Works will start at Sun 09th April at 22:00 , expected duration 4 […]