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Derrick Harris
Thursday, June 11, 2009

The lightning strike-induced outage of an Amazon EC2 data center underscores the importance of eventually getting to a state of hybrid clouds. Having applications running in multiple locations simultaneously, applications that can run in-house or in the cloud (see Appistry), or having automatic live migration to another cloud or in-house servers can help to eliminate this kind of downtime (although I don’t know that the latter would help in the case of lightning). This strike also should drive use of Amazon’s Availability Zones, which are based on the notion that a lightning strike in the U.S. won’t affect a data center on another continent.

Dell plugs hole in virtualization stack

By partnering with Netuitive, Dell strengthens its virtualization offering.

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The implications of the HP v. Oracle litigation

Rob Enderle picks through the implications of HP's lawsuit against Oracle and suggests that HP may end up better off than it started.

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GoDaddy unveils its take on cloud computing

Web hosting company GoDaddy is entering the cloud computing business.

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New wave of private cloud players washes up onshore

Carl Brooks explores a number of new products intended to make it easier to manage on-premise private cloud resources.

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Telstra throws AU$800M at clouds

Australian telecoms giant Telstra is spending over AU$800 million (U.S. $850 million) over the next five years to beef up their cloud offering to enterprise clients.

Submitted by Paul Miller