3 dirty little cloud computing secrets

	No. 2 cloud provider Rackspace tries harder | Amazon comes clean about the great cloud outage
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	3 dirty little cloud computing secrets Every overhyped technology has good and bad aspects. The trouble is that few are willing to fill you in on the bad aspects. Doing so is often met with several dozen rounds of being called a hater. Cloud computing is no exception. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Rackspace It's the year of cloud. Learn more at Cloud U. Through a year-long series of whitepapers and webinars, independent analyst Ben Kepes will be building a cloud computing curriculum designed for technologists and non-technical users alike. The mission is to build widespread knowledge about the cloud revolution and encourage discussion about the cloud's benefits for businesses of all sizes. Learn More Now In this Issue No. 2 cloud provider Rackspace tries harder Amazon comes clean about the great cloud outage Cloud failover a challenge for Amazon competitors, too How to integrate with the cloud The failure behind the Amazon outage isn't just Amazon's WHITE PAPER: Sophos Eight threats your anti-virus won't stop News headlines are a constant reminder that malware attacks and data leakage are on the rise. This paper outlines eight common threats that traditional anti-virus alone won't stop, and explains how to protect your organization using endpoint security. Read now No. 2 cloud provider Rackspace tries harder The chief strategy officer of Rackspace talks to InfoWorld about the vital importance of open cloud standards -- and the services his company offers that Amazon doesn't. Read More Amazon comes clean about the great cloud outage It appears that human error during an system upgrade meant a redundant backup network for the EBS (Elastic Block Service) accidentally took up the entire network traffic in the U.S. East Region, overloading it, and jamming up the system. Read More Cloud failover a challenge for Amazon competitors, too The outage in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service last week highlighted the limitations of load balancing and failover systems. But Amazon isn't the only cloud vendor whose systems can't guarantee 100% uptime. Read More How to integrate with the cloud All it takes is a credit card to spin up a SaaS application. But consider how you integrate with that cloud app, or you'll be condemned to create another silo. Read More The failure behind the Amazon outage isn't just Amazon's When Amazon.com's outage last week left popular websites and services crippled or outright disabled, the blogosphere blew up with noise around the risks of using the cloud. Although a few defenders spoke up, most of these instant experts panned the cloud and Amazon.com. Read More
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