Federal Agencies Wary About Switching to the Cloud
August 22, 2011
I recently wrote about Amazon’s new government-only Cloud service that the company created which was designed for federal agencies that must comply with rules governing sensitive defense-related data. Amazon is hoping that this service, as well as others like it, will give the company a huge boost among government agencies that have thus far been hesitant to switch over to the cloud due to federal security and compliance regulations.
Read MoreAmazon Debuts Government-Only Cloud Storage Service
August 18, 2011
Amazon Web Services, also known as AWS, has just launched a government-only cloud storage service for US government departments as well as contractors. Up until now, US government agencies had been unable to process or store data in the cloud due to compliance regulations. Amazon has stated that its GovCloud service will address these regulations. In addition […]
Read MorePower Outage for Amazon Cloud Disrupts Several Services
August 10, 2011
A lightning strike in Dublin recently took down service for some European users of Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services. In addition to that, Amazon also suffered a stateside cloud outage that affected popular services including Foursquare, Reddit and Netflix. According to the service dashboard of Amazon, the company’s Elastic Computer Cloud, or EC2, and Relational Database […]
Read MoreThe Essentials of Apple’s iCloud
August 3, 2011
The iCloud from Apple will be here before you know it and Apple is just now starting to roll out details about pricing as well as the beta version of iCloud.com. So in case you missed it, here is the low down on Apple’s newest cloud-based service known as iCloud. One thing a lot of people were […]
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