Monthly Archives: September 2015

Unplanned Cloud Spending Reality for 82 Percent of UK Public Sector Organizations: Report

UK public sector organizations are spending over £300 each year in unplanned cloud spending, according to a report by Sungard Availability Services. Continue reading

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Hosting Provider Hostway Appoints Jay Newman VP of Sales

Hosting provider Hostway has named Jay Newman vice president of sales on Wednesday. Newman brings over 20 years of experience to the role, in which he will be responsible for sales and account management, and selling Hostway’s vision of application-aligned hosting, cloud integration, and partnerships. Continue reading

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Amazon Sheds Light on DynamoDB Disruption That Caused Massive Outage

A minor network disruption at Amazon Web Services led to an issue with its NoSQL database service DynamoDB, causing some of the Internet’s biggest sites and cloud services becoming unavailable on Sunday, and it has continued to plague the public cloud service with a disruption Wednesday. Continue reading

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Information Security Forum: Users to Download 90 Billion Apps in 2015

The dramatic increase in application risk is shown by the equivalent of 106 years of downtime suffered from 11,944 outages by Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google services in 2014, according to the Information Security Forum (ISF). Continue reading

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Intel Capital Makes Major Investments in Chinese Cloud Services Companies

Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment and M&A organization, has invested $67 million across eight Chinese technology companies across growing industries including robotics, Internet of Things, big data, and cloud. Continue reading

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