Amazon Outage Scrooges Netflix, Heroku
What is it with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and holidays? First came the massive Easter weekend service outage of 2011. Now it’s the Christmas Eve outage of 2012, which left millions of Netflix customers...
View ArticleRed Hat Buys ManageIQ, Gains Hybrid Cloud Tools
Red Hat will pay $104 million to fill out self-provisioning and performance management for its virtualization environment, get multi-hypervisor capability. Red Hat will acquire virtualization...
View ArticleAmazon’s Dec. 24th Outage: A Closer Look
Amazon Web Services once again cites human error spread by automated systems for loss of load balancing at key facility Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve, Amazon Web services experienced an outage at its...
View ArticleDropBox Restores Service, Mum On Outage Cause
DropBox client synching and upload services disappeared mid-Thursday afternoon, came back Friday morning. DropBox announced Friday morning that it had fixed problems in its ability to serve clients...
View ArticleSize Doesn’t Matter In IaaS Game, ElasticHosts Says
Small infrastructure-as-a-service provider cobbles together a global system of leased spaces to compete with Amazon, Rackspace and other major cloud services. ElasticHosts has launched a new style of...
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Cisco’s Future Focuses On Cloud, SDN
Cisco reported on Wednesday that its earnings grew 44% during the second fiscal quarter, which ended Jan. 26. Despite ongoing restructuring efforts and the perils of a fragile global economy, the San...
View ArticleVCE Adds Smaller Vblocks To Attract SMBs
Virtual Computing Environments (VCE) is adding two smaller units to its powerful and pricey racks of integrated servers and network switches. In addition to the company’s $650,000 Vblock 300 system and...
View ArticleJoyent Offers NoSQL Database As A Service
Infrastructure provider Joyent teams up with Cloudant to provide a scalable, NoSQL database as a service. A Joyent data center in Northern Virginia will use the the Cloudant NoSQL database system on a...
View ArticleAs The PayPal Vs. VMware Story Turns
In the past week, a story that was originally reported in InformationWeek, among other places, said PayPal was adopting OpenStack. Then the story took on a life of its own — as some outlets reported...
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London Boroughs Eye Shared Services Plan
A local pioneering government group that is trying to save costs by pooling IT resources says it wants to extend out its platform, possibly to many of its neighbors. Three London-area councils —...
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