The Oracle Data Guard restore failed. SFDC is now looking at fairly severe options that include: data loss and/or 24 hours or more of additional downtime.

Power failure at DC data center, Salesforce.com failed over NA 11, 12, 14 last evening to another data center.

This morning, while syncing data on those nodes, a catastrophic database failure occurred on NA14. There is currently no information what occurred (hardware vs software). They are currently analyzing the data failure and recovery options.

Please keep updating this as you learn what's happening. Salesforce is opaque at the moment.

So far there is only one person in Silicon Vally who has completely nailed it: http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000495767 (Scott McNealy on CNBC this week)

about ten years ago, Scott McNealy got in a lot of crap on slashdot for that comment.

it sucks that he was right.

Right, but the headline is not the main point of the interview.