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Recent Posts
Rackspace Goes Down
Uh, oh! Rackspace, a major cloud-computing provider, experienced a connectivity loss at its Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, data center for more than a half hour on the afternoon of Dec. 18th. During that time, customers could not access business services a...
Transaction Monitoring: A Case Study
Ever wonder how cloud-based transaction monitoring works? A good transaction monitoring service should ensure fast application performance and good user experience for visitors from anywhere around the globe. And it should guarantee complete busines...
Toys R Us Down Time (at Christmastime): Totally Avoidable with Monitoring Services
There must be heads rolling at Toys R Us – that is, IT heads. On Friday, December 11th, the mammoth toy retailer’s UK site went down for a brief period (about one hour). Think of it, 14 days before Christmas, perhaps the most popular place t...
The First Fully Functional Cloud-based “D” or Desktop
Sun Microsystems has unveiled what is being called the first fully functional cloud-based Desktop as a Service (DaaS) for grammar schools and community colleges. The new product is in line with Sun’s vision to build and deploy public and pr...
Amazon Cloud Storm Outage – This Time a Different Response
This week, as storms engulfed the East Coast, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud-computing giant, lost power for six hours in one of its four availability zones – due to connectivity issues. I read though that a monitoring firm – which both use...
IT Folks Have Little Time for Strategic Activities
A new survey has found that about one-third of IT staff spend their time on server management tasks. Nearly 60% of 441 IT managers polled cited the “hassle of managing servers” as a challenge in their organization. Meanwhile, another 61%...

