In a bid to be more transparent about last weekend’s 40-hour closure of the Verizon Cloud, the company just posted more about that massive upgrade. But, to be honest, it was more a history… Read more »
CDN expert Dan Rayburn reported Monday that Microsoft is deep-sixing its home-grown content delivery network capabilities and is instead turning to Verizon EdgeCast to deliver video for Microsoft Azure customers. Verizon bought Edgecast for… Read more »
After taking a ton of heat for what ended up being a 40-hour maintenance shutdown over the past two days, Verizon said the work it did will prevent these sorts of stoppages in the… Read more »
As of about 6 a.m. EST Sunday morning, Verizon’s Cloud was on hour 30 of what could be a 48-hour planned shutdown to rollout a major service upgrade. The provider had hoped… Read more »
When Verizon said it might shutter its new Verizon Cloud for 48 hours this weekend for a major upgrade, users were shocked. Some promised to live-tweet the event which starts Saturday at 1… Read more »
As 2014 draws to a close, the tech world seems a little weary. It was a draining year if you were plugged into social media, with conflicts at home and overseas… Read more »
Amazon Web Services cut prices on data transfers out of its cloud and both into and out of its CloudFront CDN effective December 1. The cuts are detailed in the chart below… Read more »
Object storage is one of the key building blocks of infrastructure as a service. A number of disruptive trends are playing out in this part of the market as public cloud… Read more »
Google Cloud struts its corporate stuff, adding connections from carrier hotels and direct peering as well as virtual private networking access for risk-averse companies seeking hybrid cloud. Read more »
Verizon keeps most of the site’s business — for now — with subcontracting help from Hewlett-Packard and Amazon Web Services, according to reports. But change is coming. Read more »