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Google’s Eighteen Minutes of Downtime—Security Fears Remain Google's Chrome and Gmail crash lasted only eighteen minutes on Monday, but what kind of damage do these repeated, albeit brief, downtimes cause those who are already skeptical of moving their data to the cloud? One way to stop the bleeding is to quickly let customers know what went wrong. |
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The Case of the Proliferating OpenStack Distros It seems that a growing number of companies are not sticking with the main OpenStack program and deciding to fork off their own distributions for sale to their customers. If OpenStack follows the same development path as Linux, there will be hundreds of distributions with subtly different features. |
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Prices Drop as Cloud Storage Wars Heat Up Amazon and Google are racing to grab cloud customers, and headlines, in the great cloud war. By consistently lowering prices and offering advanced services, both giants want nothing more than to be the world's cloud storage leader. But is either of them making a profit? |
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See Where the Internet Lives—Tour Google's Data Centers For the first time ever, Google has allowed a controlled virtual peek into the data centers where the servers are located. In addition to photographs that turn servers into works of art, there's also a street view inside tour of the Google data center in Lenoir, North Carolina. |
