Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event

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	Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others yesterday. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Top 10 Cloud Backup and DR Best Practices Building out a complete disaster recovery infrastructure can be cost prohibitive for many organizations. This paper identifies the many ways the public cloud can supplement backup and recovery strategies and offers overall best practices to ensure secure and efficient data protection. Learn More In this Issue Seems that balky Amazon data center cries wolf, too '80 Mbytes of storage for under $12K!' and other IT ad favorites through the years Hybrid hard drives: How they work and why they matter Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval A tour of DreamWorks Studios' data center Storage Companies Have a Condescending Approach Towards Mid-Size Businesses: Syed Masroor Microsoft to acquire cloud-integrated storage provider StorSimple RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here Seems that balky Amazon data center cries wolf, too Yesterday's recurrence of reliability issues at the Northern Virginia facility of Amazon Web Services prompted one commenter on Reddit to facetiously suggest that the company "should burn that datacenter to the ground. It's cursed." Which elicited this reply: Read More '80 Mbytes of storage for under $12K!' and other IT ad favorites through the years Elvira hawking development software, a computer with "briefcase portability," the cure for COBOLitis... Advertisements published in Computerworld since 1967 have promised all this and more. Here are 10 of the most entertaining IT ads from the archives for our 45th anniversary. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Hybrid hard drives: How they work and why they matter An SSD can read and write data many times faster than the best mechanical hard drive. On the downside, flash memory is many times more expensive than the innards of a typical hard drive, so manufacturers have limited their SSD capacities to hit reasonable price points: A 128GB SSD costs about $130, and for that same price tag, you can buy a 3.5-inch desktop hard drive that delivers 2TB of storage, or a 2.5-inch laptop drive that provides 1TB of storage. Read More Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval The Cloud Data Management Interface has been approved as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization, clearing the path for adoption among vendors and government agencies alike. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate The Need for a Secure, Cost-Effective FTP Replacement In the spring of 2010, software manufacturer Attachmate conducted a European-wide survey on file transfer solutions. Participants from 610 companies in a variety of industries provided information on how they transfer data, what kind of data they exchange, and the challenges they face in this arena. Learn More! A tour of DreamWorks Studios' data center DreamWorks Studios is busy producing eight to 10 films at any given time, and each film produces 120,000 frames of film and uses 200TB of storage. In recent years, 150 engineers have been working on creating software that can take advantage of 25,000 CPUs in a parallel fashion. Read More Storage Companies Have a Condescending Approach Towards Mid-Size Businesses: Syed Masroor NetApp India is at the forefront of storage innovation. The company is now aggressively targeting the mid-size business tier in India with new offerings. We talk to Syed Masroor, head-technology and solutions organisation, try to understand NetApp's vision and how competition is failing to tap the mid-size businesses storage market. We also probe him about the storage trends the company is seeing in India. Read More Microsoft to acquire cloud-integrated storage provider StorSimple Microsoft has reached a deal to acquire cloud-integrated storage company, StorSimple. Read More
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