Technology Industry Archive

Hosting and cloud computing vendor Rackspace suffered an hour-long shortage yesterday, as my colleague Erik Sherman discussed. Erik quite correctly notes that cloud vendors have to overcome fears about cloud security and availability that are exacerbated by exactly this kind of incident. The sad thing is that most IT people agree that internal systems go down more frequently than cloud-based...

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According to sister site CNET, hosting company Rackspace experienced an outage yesterday. This is the type of incident that will have to become as uncommon as eggplants with wings before cloud computing can get the wide enterprise adoption that so many pundits and vendors insist is just around the corner. The hype has been heavy, and many will admit that cloud computing is probably years away...

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We got the May job cut numbers from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, and announced job cuts hit a 15-month low. In high tech — which we’ve been taking to be electronics, computers, and telecom, though there is undoubtedly some high tech falling unseen into other categories — the announced cuts in June were down 56.3 percent compared to May, when the sector bucked the general...

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You may have heard about Dell’s plan to develop a pocket-sized web device that would provide Internet connectivity but no cell phone service. Add the two of those statements together, and you get the real news: Google is officially in the wider device OS race. Some have been speculating even a year before the launch of Android that Google the OS to appear in more places than just a...

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