Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
Google is moving ahead with the integration of Stackdriver technology with a new beta of Google Cloud Monitoring. Google bought Stackdriver, a Boston-based provider of cross-cloud monitoring tools, last May and… Read more »
Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front. The business of IT is very complex and getting increasingly more complex every day. It does not matter whether you… Read more »
Amazon Web Services pre-announced big, new C4 compute instances in November at AWS Re:invent, apparently re-announced them on January 2 in a disappearing blog post, and on Monday announced availability officially (with… 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 »
Late last year, the world got a good look at the challenges and pain associated with kernel maintenance required by cloud providers. A security vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor required immediate and… Read more »
Amazon launched AWS Lambda at its re:Invent conference in November 2014, and though there were over half a dozen other cloud services also announced, Lambda stood out as the most innovative… 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 »
Microsoft caused a bit of a stir in October when it announced plans for big cloud servers with up to 32 cores, 450 gigabytes of RAM and 6.5 terabytes of local SSD… Read more »
While the rest of the world binges on IoT goodies from CES 2015, we thought we’d focus on (what else?) enterprise-grade infrastructure. This week’s guest, Steve… Read more »