System Outages Explained
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From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
If youve been at ASU this semester, youve probably been inconvenienced by one of the five major system outages weve experienced so far this term. And as you might imagine, Ive received more than a few emails from concerned members of the ASU Community expressing their frustration with being unable to access Blackboard, or My ASU or the various other services that have been affected in the past several weeks.