Amazon is apparently still sorting through the wreckage of its outage. It has now been forced to admit that some data was permanently lost but it still seems unsure of exactly what was lost and whether there is some chance to recover it. Business Insider obtained a copy of the email sent to customers and [Read More →]
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Amazon EC2 Failure Brings Down Quora and Reddit
April 21, 2011 — GusA major failure deep inside the bowels of Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure has taken several large websites offline. Quora, Reddit and Foursquare are among the sites affected. Foursquare appeared to be offline only briefly while the other sites were down for the better part of the day. Customers began to receive emergency alert emails at 2:49 [Read More →]
New directory listing: AlertLogic
May 21, 2010 — GusWe’ve just learned about a new security tool for cloud management. Alert Logic’s tools for managing threats and intrusion detection. See the new listing in the Cloud Admin directory.
Google gaives a big thumbs up to Spring Java nd VMware’s Open PaaS
May 19, 2010 — GusSpring Java, an enterprise Java development environment acquired by VMware last year, got a big boost today as Google announced direct support from within Google AppEngine. Spring fans went so far as to claim that Spring is now the preferred development platform for Google AppEngine. VMware acquired SpringSource last year as part of a strategy [Read More →]
Google buys SaaS tool for managing Microsoft software
March 8, 2010 — GusThis deal is just as much about hurting Microsoft as it is about competing in the SaaS field. For $25 million, Google is acquiring DocVerse, a startup that offers a free tool for storing Office documents in a cloud. DocVerse’s free plugin is actually a way to get more from Office. It is a plug-in [Read More →]
Steve Ballmer: 90 percent of Microsoft development will be focused on cloud within a year
March 5, 2010 — GusUniversity of Washington students were told that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would talk about the future of computing on campus yesterday. But his talk was all about the shift toward cloud computing. Ballmer made a surprising statement when he emphasized how serious Microsoft is about this shift, telling the students that 75 percent of the [Read More →]
Microsoft and Cray collaborating on a low-power super-cloud design
March 4, 2010 — GusSupercomputers are supposed to solve big problems that require massive computations. Now Microsoft and Cray have put together a deal that is supposed to solve one of the biggest problems of all: how to reduce energy consumption in a meaningful way. The specifics of the deal: Cray’s custom engineering group will work with Microsoft Research [Read More →]
Salesforce gives cloud strategy credit for strong Q4
February 25, 2010 — GusSalesforce grew revenue by 22 percent and earnings by 45 percent in the fourth quarter and the company is crediting its focus on a cloud computing agenda as the main reason. “While most software companies went backward last year, Salesforce.com went forward in a dramatic way,” said Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, while raising his forecast [Read More →]
CA continues buying with purchase of AppLogic platform
February 24, 2010 — GusIt’s not clear how much of the $300 million it set aside for cloud acquisitions is left but the pile is getting smaller. CA announced it has reached an agreement to acquire 3tera, maker of the AppLogic platform. Terms were not announced but the purchase price is probably well under $100 million. 3tera has 80 [Read More →]