The Inevitable Cloud Outage: 5 Key Essentials to Safe Guard Your Application
A while back, I was starting up an EC2 instance on the AWS cloud when it entered an endless restart loop. All the application deployment efforts we’d made (installation and service configuration) over two weeks just went down the drain. So we called support. The support rep redirected us to his team leader who simply […]
Loss Of Control And Transparency In The Cloud Era
One of the biggest worries organizations have about cloud computing is the unexpected outages and the impact of associated disruptions. In fact, some of the traditional vendors use this very issue to push FUD among their customers so that they can lock them in for the foreseeable future. Similarly, if anyone evangelizing cloud tells you […]
Google Is Trying To Get Exchange Users Through Backdoor
One of the interesting acquisitions by Google, in my point of view, was their 2007 acquisition of Postini. In fact, it was the main driving force behind somewhat successful push of Google Apps into the enterprises. Today, Google is wearing the Postini mask again as it attempts a long term strategy to get more exchange […]
