Sunday, May 1, 2011

Amazon failure was human error not the Cloud


Amazon on its Cloud failure: “sorry.”  Underlying cause? Appears to be human error: “The traffic shift was executed incorrectly and rather than routing the traffic to the other router on the primary network, the traffic was routed onto the lower capacity redundant EBS network.  . . . . As a result, many EBS nodes in the affected Availability Zone were completely isolated from other EBS nodes in its cluster. Unlike a normal network interruption, this change disconnected both the primary and secondary network simultaneously, leaving the affected nodes completely isolated from one another.” http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/

The cloud backlash
CNET
by Jonathan Eunice There's no doubt that the recent "partial failure" of the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform is giving enterprises, service providers, and developers pause--and will continue to do so for months to come. ...
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CNET (blog)
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Apple Said To Be Launching New Cloud Service
NewsFactor Network
By Adam Dickter Regarding the new iCloud domain, says analyst Charles King, "Given the storage limitations of Apple's iPad and iPhone, such [cloud] services should be welcomed by the company's customers and could also inspire a generation of ...
How to Keep Local Access to Your Data During Cloud Outages
PCWorld
By Michelle Mastin, PCWorld The Amazon cloud services outage that knocked out several popular Websites last week raised questions about the reliability of the cloud, but the general consensus is that it works if you plan for failure. ...
PSN trophies, cloud saves won't be affected by network downtime
Neoseeker
Cloud saves for PS+ games stored online will also be retrievable, as will other PSN settings like a user's download history and friends list. The company in the meantime is mulling over how to show its appreciation for the "extraordinary patience" ...
NetSuite Supercharges the Cloud
Forbes (blog)
And since it is in the cloud, there are many benefits. The costs tend to be lower than traditional on-premise solutions and the installation is much easier. Of course, updates are seamless because the software is connected to the Internet. ...
CRM Week in Review: Cloud and Mergers
TMC Net
By Juliana Kenny, TMCnet Web Editor The CRM industry saw much news this week including clouddeals and developments from the likes of Infor and Soffront. In a $2 billion deal, Golden Gate Capital and Infor have purchased Lawson Software, ...
Cloud News: HP, Platform, Nirvanix, Yottaa
Data Center Knowledge
HP powers a SAP Cloud. HP (HPQ) Enterprise Services announced it is among the first partners to become an SAP-certified global provider of cloud services in support of SAP solutions. The delivery of SAP applications is provisioned from HP Hybrid ...
AT&T Building a Private Cloud With Open Stack
GigaOm
Kleinpeter said that the Dallas-based phone company would use the private cloud for its own internal usage, primarily for its web-centric businesses. Notify me of follow-up comments via email. Is theCloud Right for You? See how a dynamic, cloud-based ...
Knowledge Sharing on Cloud Computing Between Government and Public Sectors
CloudTweaks News
Cloud computing can be one such technology. Considering that the US government spends $80 billion annually on technology, there's a huge market here. Factor in other periodic investments like defense, health, education and infrastructure, and the total ...
The Cloud: No Sir, I Don't Like It
Huffington Post (blog)
I didn't know it at the time, but I was using the cloud, and I didn't like it. Heck, it ate my paper. This was 1990, by the way. Yes, the cloud was around then. These days, Apple has MobileMe, or iCloud, or whatever it is they're calling it next month. ...
VMware acquires cloud-based presentation provider
CIOL
SlideRocket delivers presentation solutions that leverage cloud computing, collaboration, social media and mobile computing platforms. More than 20000 customers and 3,00000 users leverage Slide Rocket to build, deliver and share presentations. ...
InfoRelay Online Systems Releases SnapScale Enterprise Cloud Platform
TMC Net
By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor InfoRelay Online Systems, a provider of enterprise-level managed services to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced the release of the SnapScale Enterprise Cloud Platform. SnapScale Enterprise Cloud ...
Oracle Unveils Oracle Health Sciences Cloud
Marketwire (press release)
Oracle today announced that its portfolio of Oracle Health Sciences Cloud Applications will be powered by the next-generation Oracle Health Sciences Cloud, a scalable and secure software-as-a-service delivery platform tailored for the specific ...
Experts see cloud over ties with US
Hindustan Times
Reports that India has thrown out bids by two US companies for the multi-billion dollar MMRCA has caused “enormous disappointment” in Washington with a feeling that the US might have been “overgenerous” with New Delhi lately. US officials pointed to a ...
Social Media Archiving: Cloud Preservation Rolls Out Real-Time Capture of ...
Broadcast Newsroom
Nextpoint, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of cloud-based regulatory, compliance, and litigation products, announces significant enhanced functionality to Cloud Preservation, the company’s web and social media archiving service. ...
Amazon Finally Apologizes and Explains Cloud Outage In-Depth
By Stan Schroeder
Amazon has issued a formal apology and a lengthy explanation of how and why its AWS cloudserver outage happened.
Mashable! - http://mashable.com/
Amazon Autopsy Reveals Causes of Cloud Death | Webmonkey | Wired.com
By Scott Gilbertson
If you were using EC2 as a platform to build your own cloud architecture, then your services did not go down. The latter is a very complex thing to do, and it's telling that the sites that survived unaffected were all large companies ...
Webmonkey - http://www.webmonkey.com/
Did Apple Buy Other Cloud Names from Xcerion, Too? | Elliot's Blog
By Elliot Silver
It appears that Apple's reported purchase of iCloud.com for $4500000 from Xcerion has been confirmed by All Things Digital in a report today. Assuming it's.
Elliot's Blog - http://www.elliotsblog.com/
Amazon: Networking Error Caused Cloud Outage « Data Center Knowledge
By Rich Miller
Last week's lengthy outage for the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform was caused by a network configuration error as Amazon was attempting to upgrade capacity on its network. Amazon today published a an incident report in ...
Data Center Knowledge - http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/
Could “Cloud” Become a Dirty Word for Consumers?: Tech News and ...
By Michael Wolf
With all the bad news about recent outages of Amazon Web Services and Sony's Playstation Network, cloud-based services and the cloud industry needs to more proactively educate users to protect the "cloud" brand.
GigaOM - http://gigaom.com/
Amazon Details Last Week's Cloud Failure, and Apologizes | Arik ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
Amazon explains in detail what happened to its cloud last week, and promises it will never happen again. And it apologizes to its customers. Shaken customers will have to ask themselves if that's enough.
NewEnterprise - http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/
Amazon Details Cloud Crash In New Report by www.thehostingnews.com
By THN News
(The Hosting News) – Amazon has released a report that details last week's server crash that resulted in massive downtime for sites hosted on its.
www.thehostingnews.com - http://www.thehostingnews.com/
Amazon.com apologizes for multi-day cloud computing outage ...
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Amazon.com issued an apology on Friday for its multi-day cloud computing outages last week. The outages, which struck last April 21 and ran through April 24, left many popular social media sites shut down while the Seattle-based company ...
L.A. Times Tech Blog - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/
Amazon apologises for cloud fault | Stock Market News - Business ...
By Editor - BBC World News
29 April 2011 Last updated at 11:27 ET Foursquare was one of the sites.
Rocket News - http://www.rocketnews.com/
Cloud Computing Poised to Escalate | Cloud Computing Journal
A recent report from analyst firm Forrester called "Sizing the Cloud" indicates that cloud computing business will continue to play a significant role in the overall growth of the tech industry. The report predicts that cloud computing ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal - https://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/
This Week in the Cloud: Workspace Computing in the Spotlight ...
By Maria Deutscher
The past week has seen a lot of updates from a lot of companies spread across every corner of the cloud, but one segment in particular took the spotlight with a number of significant developments – the workspace cloud...
SiliconANGLE - http://siliconangle.com/
PSN Update: Trophies, Cloud Saves, Download History Safe and ...
By James Plafke
It looks like there is finally some good news regarding the fiasco, though, as Sony assures us that trophies, friend lists, PS+ cloud saves and account download history remain intact and will be restored when the network goes live once ...
Geekosystem - http://www.geekosystem.com/

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