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December 01, 2011DISYS | Amazon Web Services Webinar: Enterprise Cloud StrategiesBy: Ahmar AbbasEnterprise Cloud Strategies from DISYS on Vimeo. November 01, 2011Webinar: Intelligent Mobile Device ManagementBy: Ahmar AbbasMobile Device Management from DISYS Inc. May 10, 2011Webinar: Bullet Proof Your Amazon Cloud DeploymentBy: Ahmar AbbasWebinar: Bullet Proof Your Amazon Cloud Deployment from CSS Corp. May 09, 2011Webinar: Bullet Proof Your Amazon CloudBy: Ahmar AbbasDate: May 10, 2011Time: 9 am - 10 am EDT Register for this exciting Webinar here : Given the recent outages on the Amazon Cloud, Cloud Computing experts from CSS Corp will discuss the various native capabilities within AWS that can be leveraged to bullet proof you cloud deployment. During this webinar our team of experts will: AMI Creation for Applications Application Deployment on AWS across Availability Zones and Regions Best Practices in database Deployment and Recovery Automation, Orchestration of Application Deployment Disaster Recovery, Durability and Business Continuity Featured speakers will be: Ahmar Abbas, SVP, Cloud Services, CSS Corp Ezhil Babaraj, Head, Cloud R&D Labs, CSS Corp Sam Madireddy, Cloud Archiect, Cloud R&D Labs, CSS Corp May 03, 2011CSS Corp and Rightscale Webinar on Cloud Based Performance TestingBy: Ahmar Abbas
April 22, 2011My Thoughts on Amazon OutageBy: Ahmar AbbasThis article was published in IT World and Cloud Computing Journal CLoud Computing Journal.The recent outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) east region cloud has taken on many dramatic monikers such as "cloudgate," "cloudburst," and has even triggered a creative commiserative competition . Most of us though are not surprised that an outage occurred, but remain a bit puzzled by the length of time it has taken for the engineers to right the situation. We look forward to post-mortem reports from AWS that will hopefully help us understand what actually happened. Was there an elusive heisenbug that sprinkled some corrosive pixie dust on the block storage devices? Or was it simply the case of someone making like an air traffic controller and falling asleep at the switch? In any case, full transparency should be the modus operandi here. Two main themes though quickly emerge out of this episode. First is there are a heck of a lot of enterprises out there that are using the public cloud today, and they have selected the AWS cloud to run their applications. These companies not only are the usual social | local | mobile suspects, but also include companies across media, technology and government sectors. This clear and vigorous adoption of cloud computing now seems to justify the buzz and hype that "cloud" has garnered over the last few years. How else to account for a failure of block storage devices in one of the clouds of one of the cloud providers yielding coverage in CNN, the Wall Street Journal and hundreds of other media outlets.Read Full Article... |
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