The cloud-computing market will hit $20 billion by 2016, according to a new report from a division of 451 Research. "Cloud computing is on the upswing and demand for public cloud services remains strong," Yulit…
A pair of power outages at hosting provider DreamHost took the hosting provider down for the better part of two days, leading to thousands of angry customers. Meanwhile, a frustrated DreamHost posted dozens of…
How did the nation’s leading e-commerce sites fare during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, including Cyber Monday? Panopta’s uptime report claims that even top retailers were plagued by downtime over the cruci…
We’re all familiar with the so-called Work-Life Balance. But, this conjures up visions of see-saws that must be perfectly balanced with equal weights on both ends at all times to ensure success. I personally be…
A typical data-center organization experienced an average of 16 data center outages in the last 12 months, costing an average of $5.1 million, according to a new Symantec survey on the state of the data center.…
Time is money. Downtime is money, too. When business applications stop providing end users with services, the meter starts running. Depending on the application, costs may pile up rapidly and result in serious…
[caption id="attachment_3042" align="aligncenter" width="500"] If only outages could be solved with some sort of panic button.[/caption] Another day, another outage: hosting provider Dreamhost suffered a loss o…
[caption id="attachment_2924" align="aligncenter" width="500"] "Man, now I'll have to do actual work instead of Tweeting."[/caption] It was a day of outages for some of the biggest brands in data, with Twitter,…
It’s considering both in-house and external resources for the best fit for a variety of tasks. Rightsourcing considers in-house options and contractors to determine the most effective course of action. With rig…
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