posted by Julie Craig   | August 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

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One of the hazards of being an Analyst is that it brings out your inner geek. In completing the latest research on “End-to-End Application Management in the Age of Cloud”, it was necessary for me to hole up with a gallon of coffee and a bag of chocolate-covered coffee beans and figure out what Cloud...

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heads up to cloud failures

The recent events at Amazon are notable for multiple reasons, but for those of us who have spent time actually working in IT there are no big surprises there. Technology fails. Big, integrated technology systems fail bigger, and Amazon is definitely one big, honkin’ system. No matter who hosts it—even Amazon—if it is technology-based, it’s...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | April 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

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The only thing worse than experiencing an IT system failure is a public IT system failure and that’s exactly whats happening to several large social websites this morning Quora, FourSquare, Reddit have all been offline the past few hours as failures at Amazon’s Cloud service continue. Take a look at the AWS Service Dashboard and...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | December 4, 2010 | 0 Comments

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Data integration and data access continue to be a hurdle to companies that are utilizing software as a service. Compliance and regulatory issues are part of the challenge but at the heart of things simply having the data integrated and where you need it for analysis is key. Jitterbit an application and data integration company...

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