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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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How Amazon builds the world's most scalable storage

The cloud storage market is accelerating fast - despite naysayers and alarmists - and Amazon's S3 is leading the charge. Storing over 40 billion files for 400,000 customers Amazon is the one to beat. How do they it for pennies per GB a month? Read on. I...

Tags: Data Center, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Storage Market, Humans, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-03-09

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

Could Amazon provide a home to Linked Data?

In a press release issued earlier this month Amazon announced their 'Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services' initiative, providing a free home to potentially massive public data sets and free use of those data by developers hosting their applications in the company's data centres. Larry Dignan...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, RDF, Semantic Web, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-16

DreamForce clouds deluge San Francisco

Rock legend Neil Young surprised and delighted the audience at SalesForce's DreamForce conference today by having his electric and natural gas powered 1959 Lincoln Continental Mk IV convertible driven onto the stage silent and beautiful as the clouds above San Francisco unleashed intermittent torrential rain. ...

Tags: Facebook, Sales Force, Neil Young, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Same story for Amazon: Q3 beats, Q4 forecast disappoints

Same story - different company, different day. This time it's Amazon on the hot seat. The company reported third quarter earnings of $118 million, or 27 cents per share, on $4.26 billion in revenue. statement Profits were up 48 percent from the same quarter a year ago...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?

Google's Gmail outage on Monday was the latest stumble for nascent cloud computing services, which are becoming the lifeblood for small businesses and startups. The Gmail outage--along with Amazon's stumbles of late--raises a few key questions: Where's the offline synchronization capability? Can we depend solely on the Web? Is Microsoft's...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Backup, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Service, MobileMe, Ryan, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Outage of critical systems shows a hybrid web-desktop approach is still the best

Gmail pulled a fail whale and a number of people are talking about how their productivity was damaged. Systems are going to go down, it's a fact of life. What's important is to be prepared when those systems go down which is a major reason that some kind of offline...

Tags: Google Gmail, Outage, E-mail Providers, Manufacturing, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-08-11

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

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

Hyperic CloudStatus

Back in May, I posted my take on Cloud computing. Since that time, I've spoken to quite a number of suppliers who are focused on supporting cloud computing, managing cloud computing, and even using cloud computing as a way to provide either a desktop or a server experience without the...

Tags: Performance, Service, Tool, CloudStatus, Hyperic HQ, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Amazon steps up Web services support

Amazon Web Services AWS is growing up quickly. The company rolled out premium support services, which will be a welcome sign as more enterprises dabble with Amazon's cloud. AWS rolled out premium support services for Amazon EC2, S3 and SQS with two tiers gold and silver. ...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services, It Services, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-17

News to know: HD DVD done; Vista SP1 problems and benchmarks; MacBook Air Diary; Green data centers

Notable headlines: Robin Harris: What your disk drive isn't telling you. Toshiba: We're done with HD DVD Report: Toshiba to announce HD DVD pullout Tuesday. Microsoft says end of HD DVD won't hurt Xbox 360 Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Data Center, HD-DVD, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, GrandCentral, Data Centers, Hd Dvd, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Storage, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Hardware, Data Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Amazon explains its S3 outage

Amazon has issued a statement that adds a little more clarity to its Web services outage on Friday. Here's Amazon's explanation of the S3 outage, which wreaked havoc on startups and other enterprises relying on Amazon's cloud. Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing...

Tags: S3 Inc., Health Care, Amazon.com Inc., Authentication Service, Outage, Manufacturing, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-16

Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?

Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?Legal requirements[i]Why on earth Amazon couldn't have invested in a similar system to keep customers informed is beyond me.[/i]Amazon can't legally deploy that until the Jeff gets the patent paperwork filed.Cash flow, of course"What I can’t understand is, why do providers only understand this...

Tags: Manufacturing, Amazon.com Inc., outage

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

What happens when the cloud doesn't work?

What happens when the cloud doesn't work?What's the sayingDon't put all your eggs in one basket.Although Mark Twain had a different take on it (and for companies like Microsoft and Google, this worked . . . at first.)"Behold the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"...

Tags: Service level management, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

What happens when the cloud doesn't work?

Update below: Cloud services sound great. A company can host their infrastructure with a large player like Amazon and Google, spend little and grow the business. Data center investment? Why would you do something like that? Those theories are being tested today as Michael Krigsman is on...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.

Update 2/16/08, 2:30PM EST: Nick Carr wrote a good post-mortem. So did Larry Dignan. Update 2/16/08, 11:00AM EST: Amazon reports the cause of the problem: Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing elevated levels of authenticated requests from multiple users in one of our...

Tags: S3 Inc., Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., PST, Blogging, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Service Level Management, Web Services, Security, Internet, Emerging Technologies, It Operations, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-02-15