Amazon's botched backup causes Cloud chaos

Amazon's botched backup causes cloud chaos iT News By Liam Tung on Aug 17, 2011 6:37 AM (13 hours ago) A series of failures in the power infrastructure supporting Amazon's Elastic Cloud data centre in Ireland caused a rolling European service outage last week. It was Amazon's first major cloud outage ...

Cloud box does virtualization sans SAN Register By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Cloud-computing appliance maker Nutanix is tackling a problem that has dogged the deployment of virtual servers and desktops: all the key hypervisors require storage area networks and centralized ..

SHI Shifts its Headquarters to New 420000 Sq. Ft. Cloud Computing Campus TMC Net By Madhubanti Rudra As a part of its strategic investment to capitalize on the fast-growing cloud computing industry, New Jersey's women-owned technology company SHI International Corp recently turned a former AT&T (News - Alert) facility that sat idle ..

Revenge of the Web: Will Apple Lose Its Grip? Fox News By John R. Quain The Kindle Cloud Reader doesn't require an Apple app and doesn't require Amazon to give Apple a percentage of sales. For once, Apple may have bitten off more than it can chew. Ever since the success of the iPod, the company has had an ...

Github-Integrated fluxflex Aims At Making Cloud Hosting Easier And ... By Serkan Toto There are quite a few cloud hosting Platform-as-a-Service providers out there to do the heavy lifting for web application developers who expect a certain amount of traffic for their sites. A new provider called fluxflex aims at ... TechCrunch

Amazon Launches Government-Oriented Cloud Computing Service - Arik ... By Arik Hesseldahl Three months after America's first chief technology officer recommended that the federal government move as much of its IT infrastructure to the cloud as possible in order to save a few billion dollars,cloud provider Amazon says it has ... AllThingsD

Amazon Builds a Wall Around Its Cloud for the U.S. Government ... By Scott M. Fulton, III If you're looking for new, but obvious, ways to cut government waste, try this: According to a cloudcomputing strategy report last February by U.S. Chief Information Officer ... ReadWriteWeb

Amazon Launches Cloud Services For Government ... AWS GovCloud will meet a host of strict regulatory requirements specific to government and include services such as Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage ... www.informationweek.com/news/government/.../231500093

Staying ahead of cloud complexity Managing cloud infrastructure and services is similar to traditional network management - only bigger, badder and more complex. www.networkworld.com/supp/2011/.../080811-ecs-cloud.html Github-Integrated fluxflex Aims At Making Cloud Hosting Easier And Cheaper Washington Post By TechCrunch.com, There are quite a few cloud hosting Platform-as-a-Service providers out there to do the heavy lifting for web application developers who expect a certain amount of traffic for their sites. A new provider called fluxflex aims at ... Nimbula Tackles Cloud's Identity Problem InformationWeek Cloud OS Nimbula Director 1.5 lets IT share user identities and privilege levels across multiple data centers. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek The 1.5 release of Nimbula Director will be able to provision end users with compute cycles and storage in .. Cloud firm Box.net seeks $35 million in new funding Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cloud-storage and file-sharing company Box.net is raising $35 million in new funding, underscoring again the appeal of one of Silicon Valley's hottest investment areas. According to a filing, the company -- which focus on ... VMware Enlists Dell to Help Wage Cloud 'Operating Systems War' Bloomberg By Dina Bass - Wed Aug 17 13:00:00 GMT 2011 VMware Inc. (VMW) is working with Dell Inc. (DELL) and the Ubuntu Linux operating system to spur adoption of its cloud-computing software, ratcheting up competition with Microsoft Corp. ... The Situs Companies Makes Its Data Hurricane-Proof With EVault Cloud-Connected ... MarketWatch (press release) By combining the EVault Plug-n-Protect disk-based backup appliance with EVault Cloud-based replication and disaster recovery services, Situs is now able to restore critical systems, including loan processing, in well under 24 hours following a disaster ... CGI Granted Approval to Deliver Certified, Secure Government Cloud Services MarketWatch (press release) The ATO enables US federal, state, local, and tribal entities to immediately order CGI's cloudservices, including virtual machines and Web hosting. In addition to meeting the technical and management requirements outlined in GSA's IaaS BPA, ... Cloud Data Ownership: 'Onus Is On Cloud Providers' CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN Data ownership concerns clouded the initial move to the cloud, with questions swirling over what happens to data when it's moved to the cloud; what happens if a cloudprovider goes out of business; and what happens if cloud . CommVault Introduces New Service Provider Program to Fuel Delivery of Cloud ... PR Newswire (press release) Managed service providers (MSPs) are playing an increasingly important role in helping IT organizations develop and deploy virtual public and private cloud strategies. A gap often exists, however, when it comes to ensuring large-scale data management, ... 3CLogic's Cloud Based Contact Center Service Enables Sopra Brands to Boost ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) 3CLogic, a leading provider of cloud based contact center services hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services), is proud to announce its partnership with Sopra Brands, a company which provides consulting and management services to companies in the franchise ... Cloud computing 101: The risks of Cloud computing (Part 1) Computerworld Australia As the most hyped concept in IT today, Cloud Computing has taken spin to a whole new level. Vendor marketing is awash with the benefits of Cloud computing with little mention of the pitfalls. In this three part series Computerworld examines some of the ... U.S. Government Agencies Embrace Desktop Virtualization With VMware View to ... MarketWatch (press release) With nearly all federal agencies working towards deploying secure mobile and cloud computing solutions, VMware View enables personnel to securely access their desktops and applications at any time from a variety of devices, such as government-furnished ... CSC offers “on-premise private cloud” Delimiter Multinational IT services giant CSC this week launched in Australia a service which it described as private cloud computing infrastructure which could be hosted in customers' own datacentres, giving them an additional option for migrating to the ... Oracle takes cloud computing a notch higher via engineered systems Business Daily Africa Leading integrated business software and hardware systems provider, Oracle, has introduced two solutions to securely manage cloud computing and enhance data management for businesses. Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata products are now available in the ... Cloud Music: Rdio Killed The iTunes Star CloudTweaks News You may have heard of Apple's iCloud, the Amazon Cloud Player and Google Music Beta, remote music storage services for smartphones, laptops and desktop computers. Rdio is another such service, lesser known but at least equally connected, .. Cloud Cruiser Launches Industry's First Cloud Cost Management Solution for ... PR Newswire (press release) ROSEVILLE, Calif. and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug., 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudCruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions and a member of the OpenStack™ community, today announced the general availability (GA) of the Cloud Cruiser .. Cloud helps drive Dell's growth Cloud Pro Dell gives thanks to enterprise solutions, such as cloud, for driving income up 63 per cent. Cloudcomputing has been credited with boosting Dell's second quarter results to $15.7 billion. Although the figures released today only showed a one per cent ... Acumatica Releases Version 2.2 of its Cloud Accounting, ERP, and CRM Software SYS-CON Media (press release) Acumatica released the latest version of its Cloud ERP software that includes several customer driven enhancements such as automated bank reconciliation, inventory allocation by sales order, expanded replenishment algorithms, flexible payment ... Drobo and Carbonite Partner for Comprehensive Cloud Backup Solution Marketwire (press release) Pursuant to the partnership, Drobo business customers can purchase a 14-month subscription of Carbonite's new Business or Premier Business cloud backup solution for the price of a 12-month plan. When combined with Drobo's ease-of-use and onsite data ... Centrify Secures $16M in Financing to Expand Distribution and Extend Its On ... PR Newswire (press release) 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrify Corporation, the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally control, secure and audit both on-premise and cloud-based systems and applications, today announced that it has closed its Series D ... More Cloud News below--computing, storage, infrastructure, security