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The cloud backlash | Apps Meet Ops - CNET News
- The cloud did not fail. Amazon Web Services failed. Amazon's failure was partial, but very substantial. Large numbers of customers were badly affected, and things that should not have failed--that were supposedly specifically designed and arranged to ride through partial failures--suffered as well. Amazon lost only a very small portion of data (less than 1/10th of 1 percent of the EBS volumes managed in northern Virginia), but losing any of it is a very bad mark. Plain and simple, Amazon dropped the ball, big time. But plenty of other cloud services have no connection to AWS, and never blipped.
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Cairo, Ill., argues for its life in levee breach plan; others protest
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Five Free Software Programs Everyone Should Have | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
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Amazon's lengthy cloud outage shows the danger of complexity
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U.S. Economy Grew 1.8% in First Quarter - NYTimes.com
- “The G.D.P. went up, and that’s all fine and good, but in the real marketplace that’s definitely not the case,” said Jeff Beatty, a 62-year-old information technology professional in Richmond, Ky. Despite applying for 214 jobs “across half of the country,” he said, he has been unable to find work for the last year.
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Red Tape - We are all being tracked now. What should we do about that
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Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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