So now the world knows that the current outages that Amazon and Microsoft are suffering in Europe have been caused by lightning strikes on their Dublin data centers. The outages have caused downtime for users of both Amazon EC2…
Spending as much time as I do talking about the benefits of cloud computing, it’s sometimes a little frustrating living somewhere that is generally the last place in the world to have access to technological innovations. Case in point…
I’d kind of avoided posting about the recent Amazon outage – it’s an event that has had monstrous amounts written about it – some of it beyond hyperbole. Case in point; NetworkWorld says that; the Amazon outage set cloud…
AFCOM, the data center industry group, has just released its 2009/2010 data center trends survey which is an interesting look at what what data centers are seeing as the major issues and opportunities for the industry. Most interesting are the results relating to the move around cloud computing.