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Lightning strike zaps EC2 Ireland

Lightning strike zaps EC2 Ireland

By Phil Wainewright on August 8, 2011

Amazon has told its EC2 customers in Europe some of them could face outages of as long as 24 to 48 hours as the cloud provider struggles to recover from a lightning strike that disrupted power supplies to its Dublin, Ireland data center. It took 3 hours to recover the first of the affected instances […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dublin, outage, Power supply | 1 Response

News Analysis: IBM Buys Sterling Commerce From AT&T

News Analysis: IBM Buys Sterling Commerce From AT&T

By R "Ray" Wang on May 24, 2010

 Merger Ties B2B Integration Tools With Selling And Fulfillment On May 24th, IBM surprised the market with its $1.4B, all-cash, definitive agreement to buy Dublin, Ohio based Sterling Commerce from AT&T.  Sterling Commerce was purchased by SBC Communications in 2000 for its strengths in B2B integration.  As an AT&T company in 2005, they acquired […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, AT&T, B2B Integration, B2B Managed Services, Collaboration Network, Comergent, Dublin, eInvoicing, GenTran, ibm, IBM WebSphere, integration, Integrator, managed file transfer, mergers, middleware, Mobile Solutions, News Analysis, Nistevo, Ohio, order management, sterling commerce, The VAN, yantra

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