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Amazon.com Web Service’s hosted storage service went down Friday morning, frustrating many Web site customers and refreshing concerns with the ballyhooed approach of cloud computing….
The glitch sent a ripple through the blogosphere as Web entrepreneurs, who are increasingly using Amazon’s hosted computing services, pondered whether they needed a back-up plan or a more traditional hosting provider.
On the forum, some people complained about how the service glitch essentially put them out of business temporarily.
"My new sites hosts over 25,000 images on Amazon and I wake up to notice major issues this morning," wrote one customer. "The S3 service is great but this just proves you can’t rely on it, this is a major issue especially since it’s been down for so long."
That particular Web site operator managed to put an in-house back-up system online, a job which should be automated, according to the forum posting.
This isn’t the first time Amazon has run into problems keeping its computing services running without fail. … read more here:
What can I say? I didn’t post this to embarrass Amazon … I posted this to wake up the few among you who will listen.
Don’t put your livelihood in the hands of one service or provider, no matter who runs it. Amazon apparently suffered an outage. So will every single other web provider you can think of.
If you are trying to make money online, will your action be to failover (preferably automatically) to your already in place backup? Or will your action be to maon and bitch and bitch about Amazon’s performance on a forum.
I don’t know which course you’ll chose. I do know which course will make you the most money.
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When Will It Hit You? Failure Is Not An Option
I see this day after day … a blogger with a high-profit site, and affiliate sales operation on it’s way to five figures a month, a social booikmarking site poised tmake Digg jealousrry, my ISP had a littl eproblem last night … or … the Data center had a backhoe cut their connectivity fiber.
For years now I have been listening to these lame excauses and it almost seems as if we are making no progress. But it is 2008 … and can can, and must make progess.
Register here, for free and you’ll see why failur eis not an option and why you do not have to spend your online life making excuses for others.
VMware and Double-Take:
The Ultimate Recovery Platform
Date:
February 20, 2008
Time:
12pm — 1pm EST
5pm — 6pm London Time
6pm — 7pm Paris Time
Speaker:
Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering,
Double-Take Software
Paul Vasquez, Senior Technical Alliance Manager, VMware
Organizations of all sizes struggle with the daily challenge of recovering and optimizing critical workloads – either associated with the operational recovery of individual files or servers, or even at the point of a catastrophic disaster. Because Double-Take Software has specifically designed useful recovery tools to run on the VMware platform, IT Professionals are able to leverage the feature-rich VMware virtual machine platform in conjunction with Double-Take to ensure cost-effective and seamless disaster recovery.
Join VMware and Double-Take Software for an informative webinar to learn how you can leverage virtualization as part of your disaster recovery strategy. Topics discussed include:
- Physical to virtual disaster recovery
- Virtual to virtual disaster recovery
- Virtual machine provisioning and automated creation
- Full server protection and failover
- Migration and consolidation
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Who Is At The Distant End? Think Passwords Are Enough?
Securing the Shifting Network Perimeter with The Clean VPN
Feb 19, 2008
12:30 p.m. Eastern / 9:30 a.m. Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
Technology Professional,
Remote users, virtualization, service-based and real time applications are changing the way that organizations do business and define their networks. With the extension of the network, IT is faced with increased complexity and threat vulnerability.
Detect, connect and protect your network with The Clean VPN.
Join this eSeminar to learn how a Clean VPN can help you:
- Connect users securely from anywhere
- Detect the identify and integrity of end point devices
- Protect applications based on user identity and the end point trust
- Protect the network with high-speed unified threat management
Featured Speakers:
Chris Witeck
Director of Product Management
SonicWALL
Steve DeGeorge
eSeminars Host
Ziff Davis Enterprise
Sponsored by SonicWALL
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So You Still Think a BPO Center is a Building?
Web Commuting: Behind-the-Scenes Innovation from Blue Man Productions
and Virtual Works
Feb 12, 2008
1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
Technology Professional,
Join us for this live 45-minute Webinar to explore how organizations can increase employee productivity by enabling Web commuting via Citrix® GoToMyPC® Corporate. Guest speakers will be on hand to answer your questions and discuss how this simple, secure remote-access solution can greatly increase productivity, retention and work/life balance.
You’ll learn how GoToMyPC Corporate:
- Requires no capital investment and very little IT support
- Helps companies establish Web commuting to increase employee productivity
- Can be a convenient alternative to in-house VPNs for companies just getting started with secure remote access
Submit the registration form to reserve your Webinar seat or call +1-888-646-0016 for a live demo. If you are calling from outside the U.S., please dial +1-805-690-5780.
Sponsored by Citrix Online – GoToMyPC
Featured Speakers: 
Debra Dinnocenzo
President – Virtual Works! 
Gretchen Nemechek
Sr. Director Business Development & Product Marketing – Citrix Online 
Michael Krieger
VP, Market Experts Group
Ziff Davis Enterprise
Peter Yagecic
Director of Technology
Blue Man Productions
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