Archives for August 2022

As climate change accelerates, and extreme events occur more frequently — from hurricanes and floods to soaring temperatures and water shortages — resiliency concerns are growing.

Taking legal action is a slippery slope: Cloud providers are known to have covered their bases well. And besides, is it worth ruining your relationship with the cloud provider? It depends.

The cloud comes with tantalizing promises of greater efficiency, improved data security, and boosted profits. But the cloud is not infallible, and outages are inevitable. Here’s what IT leaders need to know.

Better observability tools can help net managers maintain some resilience to cloud service outages, but provider misconfigurations and DNS infrastructure issues are out of their control.

AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure saw a slowdown of their huge revenue growth rates in the second quarter, according to the companies’ quarterly earnings reports. Executives pointed to macroeconomic conditions and said they remained bullish on cloud services under any economic conditions.

An 8-hour cloud outage during holiday shopping season could cost a retailer millions of dollars. Here’s how CIOs are weighing the risks and costs of outages against the complexities and costs of building resilience.

Market pressures and risk tradeoffs made by cloud providers might be the key to understanding why outages happen and what lies ahead for resolving cloud outages that can bring down regional, if not national commerce.

From the outermost edge of extreme networks to the center of the energy vortex, emerging technologies are set to permanently end cloud outages. Will they eventually eradicate the clouds, too?

The US, UK, and EU are all weighing regulations that would consider cloud companies “critical infrastructure” and require they meet resiliency standards.

The US, UK, and EU are all weighing regulations that would consider cloud companies “critical infrastructure” and require they meet resiliency standards.