http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic All Hyperic, all the time Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:05:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OSCON news continues...But the "Spam King" is not forgotten Penny stock "Spam King" flees prison by foot, deciding he had had enough of his stay Tim O'Reilly's speech at OSCON determines that the future must be "open," in particular with Cloud Computing, Open Web and Mobile Serdar Yegulalp of InformationWeek interviews ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/24/hyperlinks-july-24-2008/ Lots of news coming out of OSCON today, but we'll start HyperLINKS with some additional S3 outage coverage and a CloudStatus reference. Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer puts in her two cents about the S3 outage, and even includes quotes from Hyperic's Jon Travis In more S3 outage news, Fortune's ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/23/hyperlinks-july-23-2008/ 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 <grin> 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 ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/22/hyperlinks-july-22-2008/ 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 ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/21/hyperlinks-july-21-2008/ 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 ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/20/amazon-ec2-s3-sqs-outage-0720/ 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, ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/18/hyperlinks-july-18-2008/ 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 ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/17/hyperlinks-july-17-2008/ 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 ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/16/hyperlinks-july-16-2008/ 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 ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/15/hyperlinks-july-15-2008/ 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 ... http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/07/14/hyperlinks-july-14-2008/