Cloud Computing

Amazon outage one year later: Are we safer?

Experts warn that many businesses still do not have measures to insulate themselves from big service provider outages

5 tips for surviving a cloud outage

2011 was a brutal year for cloud outages, from Amazon's big one in April to dozens of others. Are you prepared for what 2012 holds?

AMD consolidating data centers with cloud, hardware upgrades

AMD is also considering software licensing fees and taxes in data-center consolidation effort

Lofgren says ‘toxic environment’ stalls visa reform

Republicans' visa reforms would eliminate green card diversity lottery

Report: Some cloud providers have “dirty disks”

Rackspace, VPS.net say they have resolved vulnerability

Canonical gears Linux upgrade to the cloud

Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds

IT staff can now use CloudFormation templates to create isolated cloud resources

Can Dropbox, other cloud providers survive Google Drive?

Google's low pricing is attracting the attention of existing cloud users

Privacy advocates slam Google Drive’s privacy policies

But Google says its policies are no more onerous than rival service providers

Government moves to the cloud, slowly

Report shows security, lack of standards in government IT orgs is hindering cloud adoption