Saturday, August 20, 2011

Here's what caused Microsoft cloud outage this week

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Microsoft: Here's what caused our cloud outage this week
ZDNet (blog)
By Mary Jo Foley | August 19, 2011, 4:48am PDT Summary: Microsoft is informing customers hit by its Office 365 cloud outage this week that a “networking interruption” caused the problem, and that the company is planning to offer them a 25 percent ...
Amazon Registers a Dozen “Cloud Video” Domains
TechCrunch
Amazon has obtained a dozen new domain names related to its cloud video service, including things like “instantcloudvideo.com,” “amazoncloudvideo.com,” and “primevideocloud.com,” to name just a few. The domains were registered one day prior to the ...
Salesforce Sales Forecast Beats Estimates on Cloud Services
San Francisco Chronicle
Shifting to programs provided over the Internet, known as cloud computing, can help businesses reduce computing expenses, making it a sensible move even if a slowdown forces cuts elsewhere, he said "The big secular driver here is the move towards the ...
Enterprise Social Collaboration: Building A 'People Cloud'
InformationWeek
Saba's next-generation collaboration platform, known as the People Cloud, is still officially in beta, or limited production--but with more than a 100 firms, including some of Saba's biggest customers, actively using it today, Yazdani said. ...
Choosing sides in the cloud game
ITworld.com
By Brian Proffitt Add a new comment Canonical has softly announced it would be offering the CloudFoundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool in Ubuntu 11.10, a move that marks a noted preference away from a similar offering from Red Hat. ...
VA To Test Cloud Collaboration For Doctors
InformationWeek
The department is look for cloud-based email, calendaring, and other collaboration tools that can integrate with the VA's existing Microsoft Exchange-based collaboration system. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The Department of Veterans Affairs ...
ANALYSIS: Google and Motorola - A cloud distraction?
Cloud Pro
Tom Brewster asks if Google's move into mobile hardware will make them lose sight of the biggercloud picture. Google has been a cloudy company since its very formation. From its humble beginnings in a Palo Alto garage to the launch of Google Apps and ...
Hotels find savings, other benefits, in the cloud
Hotel News Now
By Patrick Mayock Cloud-based technology allows hoteliers to move hardware off property to a centrally managed location. The technology allows hoteliers to run applications more efficiently and cheaply. The cloud has its fair share of cons, ...
Google adds weather and cloud conditions to Google Maps
ConsumerReports.org
Google has added a weather layer to its Google Maps application, allowing users to view current temperatures, weather conditions, and cloud conditions across the globe. The company said the move should help make travel planning easier, because users ...
What cloud? GE builds its own world-class data center
ZDNet (blog)
At a time when more and more companies are rethinking IT and considering how much of their data center they can outsource to the cloud, General Electric is going 180 degrees in the opposite direction. On Thursday, GE unveiled its new state-of-the-art ...
TCS arm iON targets $1 billion revenue by 2015
Economic Times
iON provides on-demand business solutions using cloud computing technology and was launched in the national capital region Friday. "This is a segment where no one else has focussed on. iON will provide SMBs access to world-class, simple-to-use and ...
HP ditches WebOS and PCs for the cloud
Cloud Pro
Apotheker claims the money is in cloud solutions and software, so has acquired Autonomy and demolished HP's Personal systems Group. HP is set for a major overhaul of its business to refocus on cloud solutions and software, with a number of ...
Analyst Research on BMC Software Inc. and CA Technologies - Application ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Companies in the Application Software sector have often recognized this trend and many are currently beefing up their offerings in one of the hottest sectors around lately, cloud computing. ...
Defense Agency Plans Platform-As-A-Service Offering
InformationWeek
By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to release by next April a platform-as-a-service offering to add to a suite of cloud services that already includes infrastructure-as-a-service offering RACE and cloud ...
CommVault appoints channel, cloud director
iTWire
By Peter Dinham Technology solutions provider, CommVault has beefed up its Asia Pacific team with the appointment of a veteran industry specialist and former Microsoft Australia marketing head, as director of its channel alliances and cloud business. ...
Latency in the Cloud
BusinessCloud9
According to a recent report on Cloud trends, analyst house Gartner recommends that network managers should test or emulate the performance of Cloud -based applications in all geographies where they plan to deploy. There is a need for organisations to ...
Identity security in the cloud
Network World
Both are relevant to enterprise cloud-based computing so I'll talk about both today. I've been told that I've never mentioned my Twitter account here in the newsletter. I use it to mention interesting news and opinions about IdM (unlike, say, ...
Public sector is turning to SaaS while SAP and Oracle dither
Cloud Pro
Over the last couple of years, UNIT4 has been on something of a stealth march to transition its business away from a pure licence model to one that embraces the subscription fee approach favoured by SaaS/cloud companies. While bigger companies like SAP ...
SolarWinds releases Web app monitoring tool for cloud computing
Computer Business Review
Synthetic End User Monitor delivers affordable cloud-based and internal Web application monitoring with an easy-to-use recorder. This allows users to respond to transaction problems before customers see them. The tool also monitors Web applications ...
Heads in the Cloud
Lab Manager Magazine
As cloud computing becomes the next big consumer techo –trend, allowing people to access – but not have to physically store – everything from playlists to photos, it's also on the verge of revolutionizing the way research is done. Using the cloud model ...
LiveOps Encourages Contact Centers to Migrate to Cloud
TMC Net
By Nathesh LiveOps (News - Alert), a provider of solutions for transforming sales and service work, announced that it is high time that contact centers embraced the inevitable and move to the cloud. By migrating their services to the cloud they can ...
Cloud computing saves e-retailers time and money
InternetRetailer.com
Keeping track of all the moving infrastructure parts is best handled by leveragingcloud computing, says Savvis, as this approach can save time, money and headaches. Savvis has helped many of the world's leading retailers and consumer brand ...
Basics of Automating a Cloud Storage Service at Cloud Expo Silicon ...
"Cloud" has become the number one priority for so many businesses, yet the complexity of providing IT as a Service is daunting. Specifically, the complexity of combining server virtualization with storage virtualization, automation, ...
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