Amazon says poorly executed, planned upgrade caused massive cloud outage
It took about a week, but Amazon has fully recovered from its most serious outage in the five-year-history of the Elastic Compute Cloud, offered an explanation of what went wrong and revealed a new roadmap for preventing future problems.
Cutting Data Center Energy As Easy As Containing Cooling
16 G Fibre Channel Heading to the Enterprise
What Amazon and Its Customers Must Learn From Last Week’s Outage
Data Analysis Is Creating New Business Opportunities
The explosion of data analytics tools is being spurred by a fundamental economic truth: the plunging cost of memory technologies. “Enterprise disk” refers to large storage drives used in data centers.
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Rethinking IT Security in the Age of the Cloud
There’s obviously a lot of concern when it comes to the security of public cloud computing services. But there’s also a lot of opportunity to right the mistakes of the past as IT organizations move to embrace what amounts to a fundamentally new approach to enterprise computing.
Where Is the Public Cloud 2.0?
Cloud computing is no longer just the “next big thing.” It has arrived in the consciousness of the mainstream with industry buzz, TV commercials showcasing its power, and the real promise of revolutionizing computing as we know it. But for those of us dancing on the ground trying to make clouds appear out of the clear blue sky, the next generation public cloud is still just over the horizon.
Big Data Is on a Collision Course with the Cloud
Cloud computing in the public sector – best practice
Governments around the world have been looking at how best to reduce functional redundancy through the concept of "shared services" where different departments share a single source of function. For example, in the UK, a concept for a government cloud (G-Cloud) has been proposed to provide the shared services described by Sir Peter Gershon in his 2004 report – but this may have to be revisited under the current government spend reviews.