by Tony Poulos | Aug 22, 2013 | Blog
At a time when cloud-based services are being touted as the answer to everyone’s IT processing needs comes a series of big name disruptions. Last Friday Google had an unprecedented outage that only lasted two minutes but had the effect of killing off 40 percent of the... by Tony Poulos | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog
Ovum’s latest survey into consumer concerns about privacy and use of personal data may just be the tip of the iceberg. As more disclosures of data collection and storage become public knowledge, the backlash may throw many organizations that rely on the sale of this... by Tony Poulos | Apr 28, 2011 | Blog
My last blog on Amazon’s cloud mishap was certainly not intended to scare off would-be cloud customers but the episode most certainly scared some off those enterprises directly affected. The lessons learnt for this fledgeling sector should be invaluable especially to... by Tony Poulos | Apr 26, 2011 | Blog
If you were hoping to access Reddit, Quora, FourSquare, Hootsuite, SCVNGR, Heroku, Wildfire, parts of the New York Times, ProPublica and about 70 other sites last Thursday, you may have been out of luck. It was also no fault of their own that they went offline, some... by Tony Poulos | Dec 19, 2010 | Blog
Amazon’s ignominious dumping of WikiLeaks as a customer almost went unnoticed, except by myself, and a few others, including the venerable Wall Street Journal. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security committee had contacted Amazon...