Facebook’s outage early on Tuesday, which also took out linked services such as Instagram and Tinder, was down to a technical issue caused by the company itself rather than external factors… Read more »
All those carefully crafted images of snowscapes will have to stay locked up for a bit, East Coasters, because Facebook and Instagram are down. (Update 11:12pm: Our brief Facebook-related national nightmare… Read more »
The recent major reboots of cloud-based infrastructure by Amazon and Rackspace has resurfaced the question about cloud instability. Days before the reboot, both Amazon and Rackspace noted that the reboots were… Read more »
Technology organizations use percentage uptime as a key performance metric. Unfortunately, it is very technology focused in a time where business metrics are the norm. Which business metrics can IT focus… Read more »
Despite the inexorable move to the cloud, some companies cling to the idea that the risks outweigh the benefits. Dave Girouard, former President of Enterprise for Google, argues that the logic… Read more »
This report is intended to provide ISVs with guidance on partnering with hosting companies, establishing criteria for selecting a hosting service, metrics for measuring hosting performance as it relates to cloud… Read more »
Web content that relies on interactivity, social networking and personalization is becoming the dominant form, but it puts particular demands on the network, since it requires a low-latency environment that can… Read more »
Google, which serves about 7 percent of the world’s overall web traffic, isn’t any ordinary company. Google Research Director Peter Norvig recently shared some of the considerations that Google takes into… Read more »
Many web workers are taking advantage of the holiday break to focus on personal projects that really spark their passions. Here are a few ideas to help you stay focused and… Read more »
It’s all good to talk about the big-picture goals for Twitter but the company is still having problems keeping its service alive in the face of rising usage. Today, after the… Read more »