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| Tuesday data center tidbits: #cloudcomputing regrets? |
First up is the piece about EMC shutting down it’s ATMOS cloud computing storage service. Vendors have been inadvertently competing with their own market far longer than cloud computing has been around, this isn’t a cloud phenomena. Next up is a piece about cloud computing and data center secrecy being an IT security risk. Revealing [...]
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| Monday data center tidbits: MIT babbles about cheap optical Internet, #cloudcomputing “regulation” |
First up, MIT develops an Internet router that’s faster, cheaper, and makes no sense whatsoever. I don’t know if someone at MIT is having a brain cramp or it’s the fault of the journalists, but the idea that routers convert optical signals to electrical because they can’t deal with optical signals coming from different directions [...]
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| Friday data center tidbits: Amazon bozos #cloudcomputing (again)(and again and again) |
Today I’ve been reading more detail into yet another recent data center power failure of the Amazon EC2 cloud computing service. There isn’t much they could do about having a car crash into a utility pole, but the rest of it is purely ridiculous. 1. The transfer switch that failed came with a different default [...]
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| #cloudcomputing gone ridiculous. #datacenter |
I just got through reading a claim that cloud computing providers are hypocritical. This has to be pretty close to the silliest thing I’ve ever read. The point being made here, as far as I can tell, is that, since cloud computing resembles a public utility, and the big cloud providers ( as well as [...]
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