A Salesforce.com database is back up but not at full capacity. The more than day-long issue left customers frustrated and 5 hours of data permanently lost A Salesforce.com database in North America, NA14, suffered a nearly day-long outage that led Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff to apologize and frustrated customers to vent on social media.Ultimately, five hours' worth of data updates were lost.As of the morning of May 11, Salesforce was announcing that the disruption had been resolved, though the Salesforce Trust page showed "performance degradation" to still be an issue."The NA14 instance continues to operate in a degraded state," said a company update. "Customers can access the Salesforce service, but we have temporarily suspended some functionality such as weekly exports and sandbox copy functionality. In addition, search indexing may be delayed." The failure was caused by a "file integrity issue" and was resolved by restoring the database from an earlier backup. photo of a T-shirt with a cloud and "I survived #NA14."In the early morning on May 11, Benioff was still managing the situation. He tweeted to Smith, "I just direct messaged you."A representative for the company didn't offer additional information, but pointed to the Trust site as a place for ongoing updates.There's no official word yet from Salesforce about any remuneration or the financial impact to customers of the downtime and data loss.Connections 2016, Salesforce's digital marketing event, is now under way in Atlanta, through May 12. The tour will head to London May 19, then New York May 25 and Paris June 23.
- eWeek