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Can Dropbox Survive the Emergence of Amazon's Zocalo? Amazon recently rolled out Zocalo, an enterprise storage service that lets people store and synchronize files. Another popular cloud storage provider, Dropbox, is also built on Amazon's S3 service. Will Amazon's entry into the storage-as-a-service segment spell doom for other providers? |
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Will the Instagration Phenomenon Make Private Clouds More Popular? Facebook recently achieved something dramatic with Instagram's infrastructure. Without 200 million users noticing, Facebook moved about 20 billion photos from Amazon's EC2 infrastructure to Facebook's own data center. Facebook refers to this phenomenon as Instagration. |
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Are You Rethinking Cloud Network Access? Are you worried about your cloud resources network security? Is accessing your SaaS CRM system over the Internet just not reliable enough to meet your required customer SLAs and business objectives? We all know public cloud services—love them or hate them—have some glaring deficiencies. |
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Service Providers Need to Step Up When Handling Web Outages Internet usage varies from casual browsing to multibillion-dollar online businesses. Such a wide range in usage brings in a wide range of impact when there are web outages—from a mild inconvenience to millions of dollars in lost business. Service providers need to step up when handling web outages. |
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The State of Confusion for Cloud Management Tools Cloud management tools come in a confusing array of flavors and support functions, ranging from single point solutions to enterprise grade and priced comprehensive toolkits. Some tools work from the applications layer and extend down; others start at the infrastructure layer and work up. |
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Hystrix: Open Source Cloud Resiliency Release from Netflix Chris Haddad takes a close look at Hystrix—an open source library that improves cloud resiliency and fault tolerance by preventing cascading failures, isolating downed services, and rerouting service connections. Hystrix joins a growing list of Netflix sponsored open source cloud projects. |
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Can Amazon Be a Viable Cloud Standard? Cloud users are asking when cloud computing standards will be mature enough so that more companies will feel comfortable implementing cloud architectures and using cloud services without feeling vendor lock-in. Beth Cohen ponders whether or not Amazon is a viable cloud standard. |
