Carbonite, the online backup vendor, says it lost data belonging to over
7,500 customers in a number of separate incidents in a suit filed in
Massachusetts charging Promise Technology Inc with supplying it with $3
million worth of defective storage, according to a story in Saturday’s
Boston Globe.
The catastrophe is the latest in a series of cloud failures.
Carbonite charges Promise with fraud, unfair and deceptive business
practices, and breach of contract.
Carbonite is also suing system integrator Interactive Digital Systems Inc,
who brought the storage in, claiming breach of ... (more)
The IT industry is faced with a complexity and affordability crisis –
explosive information growth, heavily interconnected and interdependent
systems, on average 70% of IT spending going to maintenance, low utilization
of resources driving up fixed cost, energy consumption becoming an ever
bigger drain on budgets.
At the same time, business needs for flexibility and responsiveness continu... (more)
Alan Williamson believes with a passion that 2009 will be the year that
companies will look at the cloud as a serious alternative as it moves out of
the early adopter phase. Williamson, the instructor and presenter at
SYS-CON's upcoming all-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp on March 31st in New York
City [view full schedule here], was speaking in a widely read interview
published at java.sun.... (more)
SAS has announced that it is building a 38,000-square-foot cloud computing
facility to provide the additional data-handling capacity needed to expand
SAS' OnDemand offerings and hosted solutions.
As the need for hosted solutions grows, new research and development jobs
will be generated at SAS' Cary, N.C., world headquarters, where the majority
of R&D; employees (more than 1,400) are locat... (more)
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