The reputation of cloud-based computing services may have suffered a setback following an outage at Datacom last week, one of New Zealand's largest information technology service providers. Some companies that turned to the "cloud" to source services from Datacom were knocked offline on Monday because of "a series of hardware faults" that affected multiple storage systems.

About 100 businesses buy cloud-based services from Datacom, many mixing and matching these with applications delivered by their own equipment housed in Datacom's data centres. Datacom New Zealand chief executive Greg Davidson said some customers experienced a degraded service or interruptions.

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