A few months ago, Amazon’s cloud went through repeated areas of turbulence (on April 21st and August 7th) causing outages for many online services. Another event involving maintenance already generated a rant from customers and IT providers. In the IT news this week you probably saw the reports of an incident involving Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
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As more and more of online traffic comes from countries outside of North America and Western Europe, online companies are looking to Brazil, Russia, India, and China as sources for growth. When entering a new market, your business would consider the economics of the local markets and examine environmental factors: political stability, economic conditions, social
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Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at InterOp Enterprise Cloud Summit in New York City. Hats off to Alistair Croll from Bitcurrent for putting together a thought-provoking session of workshops in which we presented Comparing Public Clouds: The State of On-Demand Performance. With 28 million measurements (across 34,000 networks ad 185 countries) in
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