Tag Archives: amazon

August, 2009

• 4 August

  Asia, Europe will ride the cloud faster, says Microsoft

  According to Allison Watson, corporate vice president for Microsoft’s worldwide partner group — there is a mouthful — businesses in Asia and Europe seem to be more willing to adopt their Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) — another mouthful — faster than those in the U.S. This international market, Watson …

June, 2009

• 12 June

  Lightning strike brings outages for Amazon cloud

  Amazon.com has released a statement saying that the recent outages experienced on some of their Web services were due to lightning strikes in the United States. On 6:30pm Pacific Daylight Time, a lightning strike caused some of the servers to lose power. This led to disruption with their EC2 service …