Jun 24, 2015 08:01 PM

Aliyun Data Center in HK Suffers 14-Hour Disruption

By staff reporter Qu Yunxu, Hong Kong correspondent Yang Gang and intern reporter Liu Xiaojing

(Hong Kong and Beijing) – A data center in Hong Kong that is part of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s cloud computing Aliyun arm suffered a 14-hour disruption on June 21, and then gave different explanations for the problem.

Some of Aliyun's corporate clients began to notice they could not access their data about 9:30 a.m. Aliyun then said on Sina Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, that the problem was due to a power outage.

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