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- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.And this is whyWeb 2.0 will die. Only a fool trusts sensitive data to a third party they have no control over.Service interruptions inevitableI don't care who it is. Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, MSFT...everyone is going to have an outage. ...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Corporate governance, RAID, outage, Amazon.com Inc., BAD BAD new, Amazon S3 web service, Amazon S3 web services down, BAD BAD, AWS, white board, board, backup, Web service
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
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- Document rental service brings "deep web" content to the mainstream
- Writers?Where are all of these papers coming from? Who owns and creates this original content, and how are they being paid for their efforts? See you later SQL2008 Full Text Indexing?Hi,If have a need to store & manage massive numbers of documents (docs, images, videos, pdfs, etc). ...
- Tags: Portals, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- BreakingPoint's letter to Twitter: 'Let us help you'
- Is BreakinPoint aware that Twitter run on Amazon Web Services?They Twitter have no hardware hosting this service, it is run on the cloud specifically on Amazons cloud service. BreakingPoint does hardware testing (layers 2 through 7) whereas Twitter is just a virtual machine and storage (Amazon EC2 + S3)....
- Tags: Twitter Inc., BreakingPoint
- Discussion threads 2009-10-10
- Map a network drive to your online SkyDrive, Amazon S3 or Google Apps
- A Friday tip via @scottisafool, a good friend of mine who knows Live Writer like the back of his hand. You can now use Windows Live SkyDrive as a network location which sits as a drive in your Computer folder. To be honest, the only thing that's good about SkyDrive...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, S3 Inc., Hard Drive, Network, Storage, Amazon.com Inc., Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- How safe are your CD-Rs?
- How safe are your CD-Rs?Perhapsits his reader and not the diskRE: How safe are your CD-Rs?Have had branded CD-Rs fail in three years of time-frame.There have also been times when CD is unreadable right after burning even though the burner software good brand just verified that the data got written...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Branding, disc, CD-R, CD, DVD, Taiyo Yuden
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?
- Enterprise IT infrastructure & operations professionals have many cloud computing technologies to choose from today, and new solutions seem to appear all the time. What are all these technologies? How do you categorize them? Which are mature and which need a lot of work? Forrester is kicking...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- The time is now for Mozy and cloud backup services
- The time is now for Mozy and cloud backup servicesTwo thingsFirst, your link to mozy.com is stuck in a redirect loop.Second, brace yourself for an onslaught of comments from Mozy competitors. This is a highly fragmented market right now and some of them aren't above the odd [i]dirty trick[/i] ;-)Cheers,richi.RE:...
- Tags: Backups, Mozy, time-is now, backup service, backup, time-I
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Fragment Sync 2.671 (Windows)
- Fragment Sync is a file synchronization application aimed at allowing you to easily sync your files between a variety of devices and web services. The current version supports syncing between PCs on a local network, Internet-connected PCs via. FragmentSync.Net Web service, removable devices (flash drives, or memory cards), hard drives,...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Microsoft Windows, Fragment Space, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Flash Memory, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-05-22
- Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service
- Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying to conduct data intensive number crunching statement. Hadoop, which is used by...
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Amazon.com Inc., MapReduce Programming Model, Cloud Computing, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- DDoS attack on UltraDNS affects Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, Petco.com
- Several NeuStar UltraDNS managed DNS service customers, including Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, advertising.com and Petco.com, were knocked offline for several hours yesterday morning by a distributed denial of service attack, reports rival Dynamic Network Services. Neustar confirmed the attack to NetworkWorld with the following statement: "Early...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., DNS, UltraDNS, NeuStar Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Distributed Denial Of Service, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Sun rolls out its cloud services plan
- In what may be the most overshadowed tech announcement in recent times, Sun on Wednesday unveiled its cloud services plan. The big blue elephant in the room for Sun is the reported takeover talks with IBM. In a statement Techmeme, Sun unveiled its Open Cloud Platform, a cloud service...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Adobe takes LiveCycle developer tools to Amazon Web Services
- Adobe said Monday that it will make its LiveCycle ES Developer Express software available on Amazon Web Services. With the move (statement, Techmeme), Adobe is using Amazon's EC2 and S3 service to create a development environment for enterprise developers to develop and test using LiveCycle without installing...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe LiveCycle, Development Tool, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Tool, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint
- Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprintNow this is where it makes sense.In this sense the so called "cloud" is just an evolution of the common hosting scenarios. But its the only "cloud" scenario that makes sense to me.Good article. I'm planning on looking at EC2 for a couple of...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, cloud computing, Web services, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services, Web service, software
- Discussion threads 2008-12-18
- Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint
- Moving your infrastructure to Amazon Web Services--or any other cloud platform--sounds like a no-brainer in many respects. You can scale up or down as needed and pay only for the computing and storage you use. The big question, however, is this: How exactly does a company migrate its infrastructure? ...
- Tags: Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Helpstream, EC2, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- 2008 Between the Lines
- Welcome to the year in Between the Linesâ€"in about 5 minutes I hope. 2008 was a wild one and January feels like it was 20 years ago. Here’s a brief recap…. January: The year kicks off with the usual Consumer electronics show, which is then upstaged by...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, IT-spending Expectation, Document Management, Social Networking, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture
- Cloud computing isn't going to dominate the tech landscape, but will raise a ruckus for software vendors. Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. And there's a race to deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Google Apps, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jeffrey Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud caching
- Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud cachingVelocity and CloudFront are totally different thingsAlthough both Velocity and CloudFront may have the word "caching" in their description, they are completely different products for completely different usage scenarios. CloudFront is a CDN, which is used mostly for static "heavy" content that is...
- Tags: Data centers, PRODUCTIVITY, Storage, Scripting languages, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., CloudFront, Velocity, CDN
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom
- Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., CloudFront, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Techout Partners With rPath and Amazon to Scale Its Monitoring Solution
- Techout.com, an internet performance engineering firm, helps companies achieve high availability, horizontal scalability and improved response times for mission-critical web-based business transactions and SOAP/REST Web Services. In the past, Techout.com outsourced virtual and physical instances of its Global Virtual Monitoring Appliance to multiple hosting vendors in order to replicate each...
- Tags: Monitoring, Amazon.com Inc., rPath, Engineering, Internet, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2008-11-07
- Amazon cuts S3 pricing; Dangles carrot in front of enterprises
- Amazon said Thursday that it will cut prices on its Simple Storage Service (S3) and offer more volume discounts. The pricing, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, may reflect that Amazon is looking to grab share as competition from Microsoft and others is about to heat...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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