Don't just blame the cloud for the Amazon Web Services outage

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	Don't just blame the cloud for the Amazon Web Services outage Amazon Web Services has once again found itself in the unenviable position of being the poster boy-turned-whipping boy for the cloud computing world due to another high-profile service disruption that severely slowed down or knocked out a handful of heavily trafficked websites and services, including Netflix, Reddit, Airbnb, imgur, Pinterest, Heroku, and Foursquare. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue Download the Private Cloud Deep Dive Apple adds Retina to 13-inch MacBook Pro, but iMac customers have to wait Hadoop updates coming from Cloudera, MapR, Splunk Samsung does not infringe on Apple's multitouch patent, Dutch court rules Gartner's Top 10 tech trends for 2013 WHITE PAPER: F5 Byer California Improves Business Agility Learn how Byer California and A.T. Kearney improved application performance and availability with an ADC. Learn More! Download the Private Cloud Deep Dive The private cloud attempts to offer the same self- service agility and scalability that public clouds offer, but without the complications of putting critical services and data in the hands of a third party. In this Deep Dive, InfoWorld's Information Overload blogger Matt Prigge explains why and how you can create a private cloud. Read More Apple adds Retina to 13-inch MacBook Pro, but iMac customers have to wait Along with the long-rumored iPad Mini, Apple yesterday also refreshed its two best-selling Macs, the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the iMac. The MacBook Pro got most of the attention, as it followed its larger sibling, the 15-inch notebook by the same name, in adopting a "Retina" high-resolution display. Read More Hadoop updates coming from Cloudera, MapR, Splunk As organizations continue to evaluate Hadoop for large scale data analysis, Hadoop software vendors are refining their products for enterprise use, addressing concerns around reliability and expanded use. This week, Cloudera and MapR both announced that they are working on new features for their Hadoop distributions. And enterprise software vendors VMware and Splunk have announced products that should help the Apache Hadoop data processing platform work more easily with other IT systems. Read More Samsung does not infringe on Apple's multitouch patent, Dutch court rules Samsung's Galaxy devices don't infringe on an Apple multitouch patent that describes technology that prevents smartphone users from pushing two on-screen buttons at the same time, the Court of the Hague ruled on Wednesday. The technique used in Android is sufficiently different from Apple's patent, the judge said. Read More Gartner's Top 10 tech trends for 2013 First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and now comes Windows 8, Microsoft's latest effort to keep its PC empire intact and gain market share in mobile devices. Read More
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