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- S3 outage: time to double up
- S3 outage: time to double upHaving to use two services can't be ...economical compared to taking care of your own data. Have these companies done any real studies comparing the cost of managing your own cloud compared to letting someone else manage it, especially when you have to use two...
- Tags: Manufacturing, S3 Inc., outage
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?It's a matter of infrastructure - and transparencyLarry,Your analysis is partially correct, but there is a second factor. Some cloud providers have taken a "you're better off not knowing" approach to the infrastructure their systems are based on. What server is your VM...
- Tags: Manufacturing, cloud computing, Down Time, outage, S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?
- Over the weekend Amazon's S3 storage service was down for an extended period and a bunch of Web 2.0 sites lost avatars, images and other items on their sites. Since enterprises haven't totally jumped on the bandwagon Amazon's outage didn't have broader ramifications. But Amazon's latest outage--the second big one...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Web, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Om, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- S3 outage: time to double up
- Amazon's S3 outage is proof that relying on a single cloud isn't enough, especially if, like RSS analytics provider Mediafed, your enterprise customers demand continuous service. You have to run on at least two. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Cloud, Mediafed, Williamson, Manufacturing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week wait
- According to Apple's iPhone availability tracker, the iPhone 3G is sold out nationwide. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is reporting that there's a four week wait for new stock to arrive stateside. Munster says that Apple didn't correctly predict the initial demand for the product...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, 3G, Manufacturing, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Computer 'mystery outages' plague Australian Emergency Services
- A series of four "mystery outages" have forced the Department of Emergency Services in Queensland, Australia to suspend rolling out a new, $6 million computer-aided dispatch system based on TriTech Software Systems' VisiCAD product. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Outage, Computer, Department Of Emergency Service, Emergency Response Personnel, Manufacturing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Live Webcast: Before You Migrate: 5 Considerations in Protecting against Email Outages and Data Loss
- According to Osterman Research, more than 50% of organizations using Microsoft Exchange will upgrade to Exchange 2007 by 2009. While in the final planning stages of an upgrade, are you considering how your new email infrastructure will address high availability, archiving, recovery, compliance, e-Discovery and the growing...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, Data Loss, Microsoft Exchange Server, Outage, MessageOne, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-06-30
- Windows Live FolderShare: unacceptable 3-day outage
- Windows Live FolderShare: unacceptable 3-day outageWhine. Whine. Whine.FolderShare is a free service. It hasn't cost you a dime. Unacceptable outage or not, you can whine to us or move on to another provider that will invariably pull the same stunt.Anyone who lives in their parents house free of...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Microsoft Windows, outage, unacceptable 3-day outage, Windows Live FolderShare, Microsoft Windows Live, FolderShare
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Windows Live FolderShare: unacceptable 3-day outage
- Microsoft's FolderShare is a great service for synchronizing files across computers. As with any backup service, reliability is a critical user requirement for FolderShare. For this reason, I was rather shocked to learn of an planned three-day service outage starting tomorrow evening. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Service, FolderShare, Manufacturing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Cable: Act, Don't React
- Cable companies are no longer just TV programming suppliers. They are mega-utilities, for visual, text and spoken communication. And when service goes out, you're not just cut off from entertainment in the living room, you're cut off from work and friends. The question becomes, very quickly, how...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Network, Outage, Service, Cable, Network Technology, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Twitter's failure updates: not good enough
- Twitter's failure updates: not good enoughOutagesI just ranted about outages on Twitter and Technorati yesterday. It has me wondering whether we are seeing the like of the .Com days all over again.http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/web-20-companies-is-this-com-again-25024Yes, it is the end of the World as we know itClearly our way of life is at...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Twitter, failure update
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Electrical outages make you appreciate mobile technology
- I awoke this morning to the crackle and thunderous crash of a 100-year-old oak tree snapping and falling in my next-door neighbor's yard iPhone picture above. We're lucky that no people or property were damaged, but the tree fell on a power line knocking out service for my...
- Tags: Mobile, Apple MacBook, Battery, Outage, Engineering, Modems, Notebooks, RSS, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 44ò0of Americans say Internet outage would disrupt their lives
- 44ò0of Americans say Internet outage would disrupt their lives...LOL, that's pretty pathetic if you really think about it. Then again I go without internet for long periods of time as a norm. Cell phone outage? No worries about that either... I don't own one of those leashes either.I guess people...
- Tags: Manufacturing, outage, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- 44% of Americans say Internet outage would disrupt their lives
- Most internet users age 45 or older say content online serves less their needs and interests than those of younger persons, according to a Burst Media. 67.7% of internet users age 45 or older say their daily routine would be disrupted if their online access was taken away for one...
- Tags: Internet User, Segment, Outage, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Twitter outages and Forrester predictions
- Â In my last post about Forrester's predictions, I suggested that Enterprise 2.0 won't pan out the way they suggest. On one prediction, I think they're spot on but for different reasons: Consumer services like Blogger, Facebook, Netvibes, and Twitter are aimed squarely at consumers, and they typically offer free...
- Tags: Outage, Twitter, Forrester Research Inc., Manufacturing, Web 2.0, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?
- Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?FRUSTRATEDI have been trying to login to my hotmail account since Tuesday morning... it is now FRIDAY and still no luck! I am getting even more frustrated everytime i read these news articles and press releases from microsoft saying everything is...
- Tags: E-mail providers, E-mail, Manufacturing, Windows Live outage problem, outage problem, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Windows, outage
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?
- After a full day of downtime for many Windows Live users on February 26 -- an outage the reasons for which Microsoft has declined to explain, but claimed was resolved on February 26 -- some users still seem to have been having ongoing service-access problems. According to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Manufacturing, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Photograph, Outage, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live ID
- Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live IDI directed my mom to mail.live.com.I solved her problem very quickly.RE: Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live IDI got this message all day long at the MS Office Download Center:"The Office Update Catalog cannot be displayed...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Windows Live outage, Live-ID, outage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
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