Lightning strike zaps EC2 Ireland
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 [...]
CIO analysis: Examining Amazon’s cloud failure
Five points for the enterprise to consider when examining Amazon’s major cloud system failure last week.
People Using Amazon Cloud: Get Some Cheap Insurance At Least
I’m reading through Twitter streams, Amazon Forums, and other news sources trying to get a sense of how users are responding and what their problems are. It’s pretty appalling out there. B2B companies admitting they have no recent backups and just have to wait for it to come back online. A company that claims patient’s [...]
Amazon Web Services: The De Facto Cloud API?
Read a couple of posts last week that coalesced some thoughts I’d been having into this one. First was the fascinating rumor about a Google EC2 clone. Hat tip to High Scalability Blog for putting me on to this one. The second was James Urquhart’s musings about the desirability of the Amazon API’s as a [...]
Pegasystems SmartBPM V6
I’m wrapping up my coverage of this month’s round of four back-to-back conferences with the product reviews, which typically come from multiple meetings before, during and after a vendor conference, as well as some time spent pondering my notes and screen snapshots.
I had a remote product demo of SmartBPM prior to PegaWORLD, then a briefing [...]
Amazon Stealing the Cloud
I saw a spate of recent articles that had some pretty amazing statistics and news bits on Amazon Web Services and competitors. In no particular order: - A survey of 600 developers by Mashery reported that 69% of respondents said Amazon, Google, and Twitter were the most popular API’s they were using. - Even the [...]
Enterprise Cloud Cross-Currents
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…
Defining Cloud Computing for Business Users
Like any new IT trend, Cloud Computing gets its fair share of hype, and with it comes a multitude of vendors that use the terms in ways it was never intended for, therefore making it devoid of any sense. When pushed to the extreme, a simple server connected to a network seems to qualify as [...]
