Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Amazon Cloud Outage Caused by Storms, Worsened by Software Glitches

Amazon Cloud Outage Caused by Storms, Worsened by Software Glitches
eWeek
Amazon Web Services' lengthy outage over the weekend after powerful storms through the Mid-Atlantic region knocked out power has put renewed focus on the risks of cloud computing and how users can minimize those risks going forward. It also has ...

How to deal with cloud failure: Live, learn, fix, repeat
GigaOM
Although AWS is already working on fixes at all levels, this won't be the last cloud computing outage we see, either from AWS or its competitors in the cloud provider space. On Monday, I spoke with Geoff Arnold, an industry consultant and ... Even ...

GigaOM

Amazon's Cloud: Take It Or Leave It
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Compared with managed hosting contracts, where customers have room to hammer out specific terms of service, negotiating cloud computing contracts is particularly difficult. Customers purchasecloud services online, using a form. They don't sit down at ...

Friday's storms raise questions about safety of cloud computing
Washington Post
She also expressed concern about the vulnerability of cloud services to cyberattacks. “Cloud computing has an enormous upside when it comes to storing and accessing information,” she said. “But have we really thought through the downside posed by ...

Amazon Explains Cloud Computing Snafu
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Greg Bensinger. Amazon.com Inc. on Saturday restored service to its cloud computingoperations after electrical storms cut service to some customers including Netflix Inc. and Instagram. But Amazon waited until Monday to tell the world that those ...

Cloud computing blasts off
Sydney Morning Herald
Asked what part it hoped to play in the cloud-dominated future, Dell declined to comment. The company has been buying other companies that offer cloud servicesand technology as part of its strategy to become more than just a PC-maker. An HP spokesman ...

Sydney Morning Herald

FilesAnywhere CEO Reveals the Secret to Becoming the Longest-Running ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
About FilesAnywhere: Since 1999, FilesAnywhere has provided simple, mobile access to files, cloud backup, storage, collaboration, virtual data rooms, and branded file portals for both consumers and businesses. ... “Other popular cloud services and ...

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

Virtualization & Aggressive Cloud Computing Adoption Produce Big Benefits
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The latest BriefingsDirect roundtable discussion focuses on two prime examples of organizations that have gleaned huge benefits from high degrees of virtualization and aggressive cloud computing adoption. Join here executives from Revlon and SAP, who ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Avoiding Downtime When Cloud Services Fail
InfoQ.com
According to the AWS Service Health Dashboard a number of cloud services –EC2, EMR, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk- running on Amazon East Region Availability Zone (North Virginia) were down from approximately 7:25 PM PDT/June 29th to 3 PM PDT/June ...

VMware Acquires DynamicOps for Cloud Automation
eWeek
2012-07-03. Article Rating: star / 0. There are user comments on this Cloud Computing story. ...VMware's vSphere 5 deployments, for example, would include private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, systems with multiple hypervisors ...

VMware Buys DynamicOps for Multi-Platform Cloud Management
Datamation
Buying platform-agnostic DynamicOps signals to the industry that VMware has more to offer cloudmanagement than its own hypervisor technology. ... The company's offerings include the DynamicOps Cloud Suite, a cloud services setup, management and ...

VMware Buys DynamicOps, Accelerates Software-Defined Data Center
InformationWeek
VMware is fully committed to generated VMware-based public cloud services through partners such as Bluelock, Verizon Terremark, CenturyLink Savvis, Colt, SoftBank, and Singtel. But the DynamicOps move reflects VMware's realization that it will never be ...

To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
Wired (blog)
By Jon Walsh Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a Cloud Computing Redbooks Residency at IBM in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the office wi. ... Cloud services for me are about several questions such as: will it improve what we do today ...

Cloud Computing Provider Navatar Group to Launch Navatar Deal Connect for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Jul 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Navatar Group, a leading cloudservice provider in financial services, today announced the launch of Navatar Deal Connect, the free global online marketplace for collaborating on middle market ...

Key Players in the Cloud Computing Market
Kapitall Blog (blog)
The cloud computing industry is made up of many players, and there's no indication that one will take a monopoly on the market. Like the smartphone industry, the players will likely grow and fall in dominance as users transition from one platform to ...

Kapitall Blog (blog)

Cloud Computing: Interdependent Services Could Lead to Domino-Effect Failures
Formtek Blog (blog)
Ford says that complex systems like cloud services are a little like the financial system — generally things work smoothly, but there can be occasional glitches where the results can be catastrophic. Ford warns that “While cloud computing “is ...

Cloud computing to benefit all, government must create pro-industry policy: CII
Economic Times
Cloud computing can extensively benefit education and healthcare sectors in India, Confederation of Indian Industry has advocated. ... cloud datacenters at lower rates. At the same time, government should allow banks to lend at lower rates to ...

Sony Bets On Cloud Gaming with Gaikai Purchase, but Don't Expect Drastic ...
TIME
Does Sony's acquisition of cloud gaming company Gaikai herald the end of console gaming as we know it, or is it just one more milestone in the far-flung shift towardcloud computing?

TIME

VMware Wakes Up to Public Cloud Reality, Buys DynamicOps
NetworkComputing.com
Interop NY Oct. 1-5. Interop is the only event to give you a comprehensive and unbiased understanding of all the latest innovations-including cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobility and data center advances-that help position your company ...

M&A Activity Holds Steady In 2Q: Cloud Computing And Analytics Drive
govWin (blog)
Smaller deals in cloud computing and analytics fuel M&A activity in 2Q. During the latest second quarter, there were several M&A transactions announced in the cloud computing and big data/analytics sectors, and we expect these trends to continue moving ...

Report: Global Healthcare Cloud Computing Market
PCBDesign007
The "Healthcare Cloud Computing (Clinical, EMR, SaaS, Private, Public, Hybrid) Market - Global Trends, Challenges, Opportunities & Forecasts (2012 - 2017)", published by MarketsandMarkets, analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints, and ...

New Recruitment Site Allows Employers to Hire and Fire in the Cloud
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
A recent report highlighted that up to 35% of companies are now considering cloud computing when making the decision to outsource. Many organizations are also making the shift to outsourcing in low wage countries where it's possible to hire staff for...

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

Cloud computing underpins Uefa business strategy
ComputerWeekly.com
Uefa outsourced its IT infrastructure to a supplier-built private cloud to cope with demand and free up in-house resources for contingency action.

How a storm revealed the myth of the 'cloud'
Washington Post (blog)
Some of the Web's most prolific companies — Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest — were knocked offline for hours at a time when a storm hit an Amazon cloud computing facility in Virginia. This marked the second big failure at Amazon Web Services in just ...

Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Wins Best of Tech Ed Award
MarketWatch (press release)
By delivering local-like access to applications in the cloud, organizations can take advantage of the elasticity and cost savings promised by SaaS, the fastest growing segment of cloud computing." - Eric Wolford, executive vice president and general ...

Cloud Storage Survey Highlights Advantages Despite Concerns
Midsize Insider
Cloud computing seems to be everywhere these days, and with good reason, as the benefits that the public cloud has to offer can truly revolutionize a data center. Despite these benefits, a new survey on cloud storage shows that many IT professionals ...

Bharti Airtel launches cloud computing service
Economic Times
Bharti Airtel today launched cloud computing services using HP's technology to provide software and related infrastructure to business organisations on pay-per-use model.

The Challenge For Cloud Computing | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By Haris
Consumers are driving cloud adoption far faster than enterprise IT can accept. Analytically speaking, consumers are driving this incredible rate of change for enterprise employers. The challenge one faces is that cloud computing is leading an ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

Sanbolic launches support for public clouds (Cloud Computing ...
By Nicole Gorman
“The AppCluster, a Microsoft SQL Server specific module within Sanbolic'sMelio software, extends the agility, high availability (HA), and scalability of SQL Server workloads across physical, virtualised, and now – both private and public cloud ...
Sanbolic Team Blog

The Data Center Journal Big Data vs Cloud Computing
By Rakesh Dogra
Just a while ago, cloud computing was in the limelight, now is the turn of big data and specifically the huge volumes of data being compiled by federal agencies.
The Data Center Journal

Reduce IT Maintenance with Secure Cloud Storage: Video and Demo
By Nicos Vekiarides
Recently, we've been touting how cloud storage reduces the IT maintenance burden for organizations and, more specifically, how organizations can take advantage of cloud storage while keeping control of their data by using cloud storage gateways. Erik Linask from TMCNet caught up with us at the TwinStrata booth at Cloud Expo 2012 in ... through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. « A View of Cloud Storage from Cloud Computing Expo ...
TwinStrata Blog

Nine Things Cloud ISVs Should Do Next | Cloud Computing Journal
ISVs are using cloud models differently and are at different stages of enablement. Some have reused existing tools and features to re-platform products, some are using cloud services to complement the product while others have built products ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

Cloud computing considered cornerstone of many businesses ...
Industry research continues to show that more IT professionals are warming to cloud computing. Dimensional Research recently conducted a survey of 350 CIOs ...
copperegg.com/cloud-computing-considered-cornerstone-of-...

Canadian Cloud Computing Network launches Cloud Ecosystem ...
“Cloud computing has not been aggressively adopted by Canadian business ... A marketplace for SMEs to post their cloud services to more easily sell them to ...
canadacloud.net/.../ccn-launches-cloud-ecosystem-program/

A Who's Who of the Cloud Computing World - AMZN, CTXS, GOOG ...
Aside from offering cloud computing platforms, they are slowly but surely moving ... that is quite popular among cloud providers in the open cloud services arena.
beta.fool.com/wealthlift/2012/06/29/the-7-big.../6390/

Telco Cloud Services – Cloud Computing Best Practices
Cloud product strategies for telcos. Telco Cloud Services is our program for defining how CloudBest Practices provides a framework for new product strategies ...
cloudbestpractices.net/solutions/telco-cloud/

Single standard for cloud-computing services | Rickscloud
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, also known as FedRAMP, is adopting a “cloud-first” policy that will standardize the basic security ...
www.rickscloud.com/single-standard-for-cloud-computing-ser...

Challenges for migrating application to cloud - Cloud Computing ...
Can anyone tell the challenges (kind of questionnaire) for migrating an application to Cloud w.r.t applications having integration with internal and external API's ...
groups.google.com/group/cloud.../a6159eb9c12ece1e

Connected Car: Cloud Computing Drives Off | Bankrate.com
If you're wondering why tech-savvy people seem to be talking about weather patterns a lot, rest assured the clouds they're talking about are digital. Generally ...
www.bankrate.com/.../connected-car-cloud-computing-drives-...



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