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 […]
News Analysis: IBM Buys Sterling Commerce From AT&T
Merger Ties B2B Integration Tools With Selling And Fulfillment On May 24th, IBM surprised the market with its $1.4B, all-cash, definitive agreement to buy Dublin, Ohio based Sterling Commerce from AT&T. Sterling Commerce was purchased by SBC Communications in 2000 for its strengths in B2B integration. As an AT&T company in 2005, they acquired […]
