Google falls over... In case you missed the news Google just suffered a worldwide outage of a number of services. These included many common workplace apps such as Gmail, Google Drive and Google Meet. The last 3 organisations I have worked with have all been ‘Google houses’, meaning they rely[...]
You've just been asked to look at a multi-cloud solution. You might put on a brave face for upper management, but deep down you know this isn't going to be easy. You're right.Have you recently moved to the cloud? Perhaps you are mulling over your accomplishments having moved to an agile, DevOps[...]
I started 9 years ago in the Content Delivery Network business in Central Europe. If corporations experienced a lack of performance in the market they responded by installing hardware with a Cache-Instance. If they were really tech they installed a Varnish. As Airlines in Europe saw the online[...]
An unprotected AWS S3 bucket exposed some 425 GB of data, representing approximately 500,000 documents related to MCA Wizard, an iOS and Android app developed by Advantage Capital Funding and Argus Capital Funding. According to vpnMentor researcher Noam Rotem, who led the team of researchers who[...]
Amazon responds to Google with Cutting Down Prices "The 42nd set of price cuts in the 8 years of Amazon’s cloud existence, came at the AWS Summit in San Francisco," reports GigaOM. Their S3 services are now available with 51% reduction on average, the price decreased from 36% to 65%. Their EC2[...]
Welcome Amazon WorkSpaces Desktop as a Service Amazon web services introduced Amazon Workspaces, a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. "Amazon WorkSpaces allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and[...]
Do you own a start-up that builds web applications, or enterprise software? The best long term option for hosting is obviously - the cloud, if you want to make your business scalable, and your production disruptive. The upward cloud movement is inevitable, and not just a passing hype. Start-ups[...]
