Last night, the City Council Committee of Administration and Finance approved Proposal Number 102, which allows for the City Department of Public Safety, Division of Homeland Security to move their permanent office to the former Eastgate shopping center, owned and…
Colocation and outsourced data centers: it’s still about control. Is colocation going out of style? Is cloud computing making outsource data centers and wholesale colocation facilities irrelevant? The answer is no. Colocation is growing. Wholesale data center space is being…
This is a great question, and one that many of us in IT tend to minimize when adopting new and more efficient technologies. Sometimes the simple cost savings calculations distract us: “If I can put twenty VM’s on one server…
More than five days after its outage began, Amazon Web Services has finally restored virtually all of its services, with some mopping up of a small number of customer accounts with “stuck” data in its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service.…
This post is on behalf of the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. As I write this, Amazon is having a major East Coast outage that has affected Heroku, Foursquare, Quora, Reddit and others. Heroku’s status page is just the sound…
