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By Phil Wainewright on August 8, 2011
Amazon has told its EC2 customers in Europe some of them could face outages of as long as 24 to 48 hours as the cloud provider struggles to recover from a lightning strike that disrupted power supplies to its Dublin, Ireland data center. It took 3 hours to recover the first of the affected instances [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dublin, outage, Power supply |
By Jeff Nolan on April 28, 2011
Yesterday at the Pervasive Software Metamorphosis event I spoke on a panel hosted by the esteemed Ray Wang and on this panel, which was for an audience of journalists and analysts, we talked about the cloud and big data. Here’s my take on a range of topics we discussed: 1) Amazon Out(r)age It happened and we [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon EC2, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Database, Ray Wang, Uncategorized |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 25, 2011
Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing. Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues. [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 12, 2010
Move Signal Seriousness To Acquire Key Innovation Driven Technologies SAP announces a $5.8B acquisition of Emeryville, CA, based Sybase. The acquired entity will remain a stand alone company. At first customers, prospects, and casual observers will wonder why SAP has agreed to acquire what is perceived as an aging, legacy database company. However, industry watchers [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 22, 2010
Lawson External Cloud Services Represents A Big Step In On Demand ERP Options On March 31, 2010, Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) announced the Lawson External Cloud Services offering. The venerable St. Paul, Minnesota vendor plans to deliver the full ERP Suite including Lawson S3, Lawson M3, and Lawson Talent Management via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [...]
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By Phil Wainewright on January 15, 2010
The new year has kicked off with some contrasting cross-currents for enterprise cloud aficianados and neophytes alike. On the positive side of the balance sheet, there’s a new and surprising Gartner prediction that a fifth of enterprises will have migrated…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, EC2, heroku, latency, network latency, salesforce.com, Service level agreement |