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Disaster Recovery Budget, Other Factors Affect App Reliability Hosted in Public Cloud

Budget limitations and insufficient resources are the top two risks to meeting system availability goals. In a report released Tuesday, CloudEndure also found that human error and network failure were the primary risks to system availability. Although about three-quarters of the respondents use AWS infrastructure which boasts a SLA with… Continue reading

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ObserveIT Offers Deeper Visibility into Cloud User Activity with CloudThreat for AWS

Boston’s ObserveIT has launched a free security solution for Amazon’s public cloud this week that monitors user activity and provides behavior analytics. ObserveIT CloudThreat for Amazon Web Services (AWS) integrates with Amazon CloudWatch to provide visibility into data, applications and virtual machines. Continue reading

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AWS Tackles Cloud Skills Shortage with AWS Educate

AWS has developed a program to teach cloud skills to students called “AWS Educate,” Amazon announced Thursday. The program is available for free to approved institutions, educators, and students. Continue reading

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Netcraft: DigitalOcean Second Largest Hosting Company Behind AWS

DigitalOcean is now the second largest hosting company in the world, by web-facing computers. This is according to Netcraft’s May 2015 Hosting Provider Server Count, released last week, which shows that DigitalOcean has grown to host over 163,000 computers, passing French host OVH for second among providers behind AWS. Continue reading

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Amazon Acquires ClusterK to Help Users Spot Cloud Savings

Amazon has acquired Palo Alto-based software company ClusterK this week for a reported $20-$50 million. ClusterK optimizes AWS infrastructure and helps significantly lower the cost of compute. Continue reading

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