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HyperLINKS July 22, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:52:50 +0000

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…OUCH!

Tarus at OpenNMS talks about Dave Hustace’s new project, OUCH to be revealed at LinuxWorld. OUCH stands for OpenNMS-Ubuntu-Concursive-Hyperic

TechCrunch is planning to use open source to create their own web tablet device, essentially creating a source similar to a desktop

Jack M. Germain writes about the security concerns facing VMs

HyperLINKS July 21, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:58:05 +0000

Big outages means big news! Yesterday’s Amazon S3 outage is continuing to make headlines today.

Richard MacManus of Read Write Web reveals the many consequences of Amazon’s S3 downtime and raises the question of security within the cloud

In a special report on virtualization, Gartner says virtualization is the highest-impact issue changing infrastructure and operations through 2012

Pete Wayner takes an in-depth look at the different cloud offerings

Amazon EC2, S3, SQS outage - 07/20

Jon Travis — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:03:10 +0000

At 8:46 PDT this morning, CloudStatus reported that several of the AWS services were experiencing outages. Amazon posted that they were aware of the issue at 9:05 PDT on status.aws.amazon.com.

We saw internal server errors coming from the majority of our S3 and SQS monitoring agents. In addition, we experienced other problems with EC2 (many ec2 zombies being created) that may be related.

The outage has lasted nearly 5 hours, and Amazon is still working hard at rectifying the issues.

CloudStatus: Performance metrics and health
For discussion, please visit: CloudStatus Forums
For Amazon’s status report: AWS Status

HyperLINKS July 18, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:04:47 +0000

Friday’s HyperLINKS…Cloud computing is questioned but also praised as a new service to the military

Richard Martin writes about the control over the cloud…how secure is corporate data when it is managed by an unknown virtual source?

Om Malik reminds us that although we survived the dot-com bust in Silicon Valley, we should be aware of the upcoming struggles that advertising companies are facing

Patrick Thibodeau finds that cloud-based IT services may pan out to be a useful source to military data processing

HyperLINKS July 17, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:43:32 +0000

In HyperLINKS today…San Francisco computer hacker causes chaos for administrators, while cloud coverage continues to float on the web

Distressed San Francisco network administrator pleads “not guilty” to computer tampering, an incident that will cost $250,000 to repair

Bruce Guptill and William S. McNee write about the evolution of SaaS and cloud computing

Phil Wainewright questions whether or not a price can be placed on a unit of cloud computing

HyperLINKS July 16, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:50:34 +0000

Hump Day HyperLINKS bring CloudStatus interviews and discussion of virtualization as mainstream

Tom Sullivan of InfoWorld questions whether single-vendor open source is getting too risky

Paolo Del Nibletto speaks with Forrester Research Analyst Frank Gillett about virtualization evolving into a mainstream market

Robin Miller of Linux.com and Slashdot interviews our very own Jon Travis on CloudStatus

HyperLINKS July 15, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:08:59 +0000

CloudStatus coverage continues while disgruntled San Franciscan blocks FiberWAN access…

Hot off the press! Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer covers the CloudStatus announcement

John Leyden writes about a peeved employee who blocked access to FiberWAN network, causing an uproar among San Francisco officials

Glyn Moody discusses how cloud computers are deemed as “free riders” for utilizing free open source software

HyperLINKS July 14, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:11:14 +0000

Cloud coverage discussion still buzzing in today’s HyperLINKS…

Some more news from Google Doc’s recent downtime…Stephen Shankland writes about the downtime, and the potential problems of applications moving to the cloud

More discussion on the risks of cloud computing…Dennis Barker outlines the details

Forrester research concludes that Europeans appreciate low costs but question the support of open source software…most businesses that embrace open source are content to consume products rather than give code back to the community.

HyperLINKS July 11, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:09:49 +0000

Apple 3G iPhone is now available…the whole tech world has “almost” stopped

More CloudStatus coverage…Stephen Shankland writes about cloud trust issues, includes Hyperic’s CloudStatus in the article with some quotes from Stacey

In other news, Joe McKendrick writes about raised expectations for cloud computing, warning that vendors may not be able to deliver or meet them

More VMware aftermath…Peter Bright talks about VMware becoming a victim due to its own success

HyperLINKS July 10, 2008

Hyperic Press Desk — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:48:14 +0000

Some more big news coming out of Yahoo! today. Here are today’s HyperLINKS:

Larry Dignan writes about Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search

Baseline’s Ericka Chickowski provides 10 steps towards simplifying systems management

WashingtonPost.com says Stanford has chosen Zimbra over both MS Exchange and GMail.