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Cloud outages: Just like yours and mine

The outage in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service late last month, which threw a slew of businesses offline and apparently destroyed some of their data for good, was triggered by a configuration

Questions raised over latest Amazon EC2 outage

Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service experienced a prolonged outage that started on Thursday morning and stretched over the weekend. The problem was limited to Amazon's data center in the

Amazon to offer a year of EC2 usage for free

Amazon will be giving a year's free usage on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) cloud platform to developers starting from the month of November. A new usage tier consisting of Amazon Simple Storage

Embarcadero's new RAD Studio XE suite in September

Embarcadero Technologies is set to launch what it calls the "2011" release of its database and Delphi development suite in September. Embarcadero RAD Studio XE will come with RadPHP XE, which the

Citrix unveils pilot of XenApp in Amazon cloud

As part of a pilot program, Citrix and Amazon have teamed up to host Citrix's XenApp application delivery software on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. XenApp is an application

Amazon unveils new high-memory instance for EC2

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a "high memory extra-large" instance option for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Amazon's EC2 service provides scalable, cloud-based computing

DDoS gives trouble to site hosted on Amazon EC2

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeted at a site hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) solution have brought a number of possible weaknesses out in the open. Jesper

Cobol comes to Amazon's cloud

In an inexorable migration toward cloud-based computing, yet another company, enterprise software company, Micro Focus, has announced that it is extending its Enterprise Cloud Services to support

The upcoming year: Technology in 2009

As we rapidly approach Christmas and head toward the end of the year, I am sure there are many questions as to what the next year will bring. Obviously, the current economic difficulties will still

Amazon delivers Windows-powered cloud

Amazon has finally launched a Windows beta of its Elastic Compute Cloud service. The move to launch Windows in its cloud comes barely a week ahead of Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference