| BlackBerry vs MotoQ (Win Mobile 5) I have both a BlackBerry and MotoQ. I must say that the BlackBerry blows Mobile 5 away. I added Good to the MotoQ and the functionality lifted to just about par with the BB, but the modem in the MotoQ doesn't seem to hold on to the connection as nice as the BB when you're on the edge of the network.
But on topic....RIM went down at about 8:15 Eastern and we dug into our two BES to see what was going on. RIM never put anything on their website as far as I know. They did update their telephone recording sometime on the 17th.
For those that has asked about "why didn't they have a backup" I'm not sure if you are talking about a data backup or not, but you figure even using snapshot technology there is a ton of data to backup and that takes time. Figure 8 million users...even at 25% utilization that could likely be 2 million messages a minute (for discussion sake)...now consider that during a restore you postpone inbound (every message has to come in before it goes out - at least from RIMs perspective). The amount of backlog increases during the restore. So at some point the delays just stack and you have to start throttling one way or the other.
I'm sure they are wildly clustered with multiple data stores, so the above is probably not very accurate, but in theory its a starting point.
Let's face it, it was probably that the firmware upgrade they did on their LinkSys Cable/DSL Router failed and Staples was closed so they had trouble getting a new one.
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