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Monday’s Musings: Lessons Learned From Amazon’s Cloud Outage

Monday’s Musings: Lessons Learned From Amazon’s Cloud Outage

By R "Ray" Wang on April 25, 2011

Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing.  Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues.  […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, Apps Strategy, backup, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, disaster recovery, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, Foursquare, high availability, hootsuite, IBM Blue Cloud, license management, license policy, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Private Cloud, Private Clouds, public cloud, Quora, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Reddit, rwang0, Vendor Selection

Sybase SQL Anywhere 12 Extends Mobile Leadership

Sybase SQL Anywhere 12 Extends Mobile Leadership

By Merv Adrian on June 27, 2010

In my coverage of SAP’s Sybase acquisition, I noted that SQL Anywhere is a best kept secret among more than 20,000 developers who relish its ease of embedding and minimal database administration. Now Sybase is about to release its next version, SQL Anywhere 12, with ambitions to add to its claimed ten million users worldwide […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged column stores, data governance, Data Management, data synchronization, Database, high availability, load balancing, sap, Smartphone, Software infrastructure, SQL Anywhere, Sybase, Sybase IQ, workload management | 2 Responses

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List - Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List – Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

By R "Ray" Wang on January 6, 2010

High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1).  In addition, rapidly changing business […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 3PM, adobe, ALM, application extension and usability, application life cycle management, Apps Strategy, archiving, CIO, cost reduction, customer experience management, disaster recovery, DR, EMC, enterprise applications, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, ERP-Link, Friday's Feature, GuiXT, HA, Hayes Technology, high availability, Hyperformix, ibm, IBM Optim, IntelliCorp, license management, license policy, license returns, long term apps strategy, maintenance fees, Microsoft integration, Microsoft Office, optimization, partner ecosystems, RainStor, rimini street, sap, SAP Duet, secondary market, shelfware, software bill of rights, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software pricing, Storage, SusenSoftware, Synactive, The SAP Optimization List, Third Party Maintenance, Tidal Software, Tuesday's Tip, ue, ui, upgrades, usability, used software, UsedSoft, User Experience, user interaction, user strategy, users, virtualization, VM Ware, VMware, West Trax, Winshuttle | 3 Responses

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