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Cloud Takes A Hit: Amazon Must Fix EC2
Steve Pailthorpe, 
15 February 2012

Amazon's "availability zones" were a key protective concept for the cloud, but they failed to protect access to data when EC2 went down. It has been almost a year since AWS took a massive hit with its North American Data Center Outages, as the annivesary of this event draws closer it is a good time for all of us to reflect on how important it is to mitigate risk in IT. Whether you are an advocate on premise solutions or focused on the Cloud for IT resources, both come with there unique sets of risks.

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100% Uptime - Myth or Reality?
Steve Pailthorpe, 
02 November 2011

According to our sources at the Chamber of Commerce, downtime is estimated to have cost British companies between £1.4 - £1.6 billion pounds over the last financial year and the shocking statistics seem to point towards a significant rise again this year!

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Where is your SaaS solution hosted? 3 things to consider!
Antoine Ubaghs, 
25 October 2011

Partner and Alliances Manager, Antoine Ubaghs, talks through his experiences taking software solutions to the Cloud:

As an ISV, you need to be flexible and responsive to customer demands and trends in the market.  Your customers are reading and hearing about Cloud as the future of IT.  Responding to client demand you’ve taken the time and invested valuable development resources to redesign your server/client based software to a multi-tenanted offering to meet expectations for SaaS and cloud based solutions.

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How the Cloud can improve your Business Continuity Strategy
Steve Pailthorpe, 
10 October 2011
The turbulence of the current economic climate combined with the equally unsettling scenes of the summer riots, could point towards companies requiring a more stringent business continuity strategy. You could be forgiven if you thought I was scare mongering - because more often or not, it’s the more basic day to day issues such as flood, fire and theft that affect 90% of firms. The old case of data security on increasingly aging hardware remains a significant factor for many businesses in the fight against downtime.
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Amazon Kindle Fire - A New Dawn For The Virtual Desktop?
Steve Pailthorpe, 
29 September 2011

A media frenzy began last night as Amazon launched a vehement attack on the tablet market with the launch of its new Amazon Kindle Fire. Users could be forgiven for getting genuinely excited by the launch due to the significant costs savings with product price set at just $199 (£127), making the Kindle Fire the cheapest on the market. 

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Commensus move key offshore operations back to the UK
Jack Wilson, 
27 September 2011

Cloud Computing provider, Commensus Plc have announced a major change in operations with their IT support helpdesk, currently based in South Africa, which is to be moved back to the UK. According to Managing Director, Steven Fenn the reason this decision was taken was, “The UK job market has become much more competitive in the recession so we’ve been able to find very highly skilled support desk engineers in the UK.

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Microsoft Office 365 Hit By Major Outage
Steve Pailthorpe, 
09 September 2011

Last night millions of Microsoft Office 365 may have woken up to a systems error according to technology analysts. Millions of users were left unable to access Office 365 because of a major service failure according to the BBC. Microsoft was still analysing the cause of the problem this morning, but said it appeared to be related to the internet's DNS address system.

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