Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage
An update at 1219 BST (1056 UTC) said the company had validated and rolled out a fix, and customers were seeing service return to normal. This also affects support case creation."Salesforce's customer list is a roll-call of global giants from all industries, including include Amazon, Walmart, Coca-Cola, Toyota, and IBM.The outage came at a bad time for the SaaS company. Yesterday, it kicked off its annual conference, Dreamforce, in San Francisco.
- ▪An update at 1219 BST (1056 UTC) said the company had validated and rolled out a fix, and customers were seeing service return to normal.
- ▪This also affects support case creation."Salesforce's customer list is a roll-call of global giants from all industries, including include Amazon, Walmart, Coca-Cola, Toyota, and IBM.The outage came at a bad time for the SaaS company.
- ▪Yesterday, it kicked off its annual conference, Dreamforce, in San Francisco.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 1 hour. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Salesforce Global Outage — Salesforce
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