Microsoft drafts .NET chief to lead Azure cloud war
.NET fan favorite Scott Guthrie has been elevated in a Microsoft reorg intended to "sharpen its focus" and win greater support among developers for the company’s push into the cloud.
VMware suffers second outage while repairing first
VMware’s attempt to recover from an outage in its brand-new cloud computing service inadvertently caused a second outage the next day, the company said.
VMware’s new Cloud Foundry service – which is still in beta – suffered downtime over the course of two days last week, not long after the more highly publicised outage that hit Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud.
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.