Amazon Blames Deleted Data for Christmas Eve Netflix Cloud Outage
Amazon Cloud service (Amazon Web Services) fails again during Christmas. This time, Netflix is affected and the company tweeted, “We’re sorry for the Christmas Eve outage. Terrible timing! Engineers are working on it now. Stay tuned to @Netflixhelps for updates”.
Services were not restored until Christmas day morning. Amazon has publicly apologized for the outage and blaming human error for the server downtime. According to Amazon, a developer inadvertently deleted part of the “ELB state data” which handles load balancing which servers deliver content to each user across different locations and it took several hours of testing and troubleshooting to figure out what had gone wrong.
Amazon Cloud Outage Kills Netflix On Christmas
Amazon Cloud service (Amazon Web Services) fails again during Christmas. This time, Netflix is affected and the company tweeted, “We’re sorry for the Christmas Eve outage. Terrible timing! Engineers are working on it now. Stay tuned to @Netflixhelps for updates”.
Services were not restored until Christmas day morning.
SAP Says Oracle’s Ellison Comments On HANA Are Baseless
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled new Exadata X3 database that can run databases in memory and also expansion of Oracle cloud services.
Ellison commented that SAP’s HANA is really small:
SAP has an in-memory machine, you know, that’s a little bit smaller than what we offer. We have 26TB of memory; they (SAP) offer point-five (0.5TB) terabytes of memory. It’s called HANA; her name is HANA. I promised Mark (Hurd) that when I did this presentation I was not going to mention them, I’m glad to keep the promise. The HANA in-memory machine is like really small.SAP VP was not happy with the Ellison’s comment of HANA and retorted:
Ellison said several things that were not accurate. There’s no basis in fact at all about the half-TB claim; it’s so far from the truth, that I had to react. First of all, the whole comment about ‘SAP is small, and we’ve got the big system,’ is just foolishness. Here’s the reality: IBM has already shipped the world’s largest in-memory database for SAP HANA. We already have it: It is a 100TB in-memory system.
Oracle’s Ellison Expands Cloud Services And Unveils Multi-tenant Database
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled new Exadata X3 database that can run databases in memory and also expansion of Oracle cloud services.
Exadata X3 will feature 26TB of memory in total, split among 4TB of DRAM and 22TB of flash cache, in one rack. It will use less power by 10% to 30% and data compression by a factor of 10.
Exadata will compete directly with SAP’s HANA in-memory database platform. Ellison commented that SAP’s HANA is really small.
The Exadata X3 starts for under $200,000.
Dropbox Improve Cloud Security With Two Step Verification
Dropbox, a cloud based file hosting service, was in trouble after user accounts usernames and passwords were stolen from other websites in July. Dropbox has taken steps to improve security by introducing a two step authentication method for user sign in.
This is just an option for users to adopt. Once adopted users will be required to submit a six-digit security code in addition to their passwords whenever they sign in, or link a new computer, phone or tablet.
Microsoft Launches Office 365 To The Cloud
Microsoft is moving into Google’s turf by bringing Office 365 to the cloud. The basic price is $6 per month and there are 11 different pricing plans.
Office 365 brings together Microsoft Office Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. The service also includes full phone support, IT controls, and on-premises use rights for voice capabilities.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to launch the June 28 event at New York City’s Skylight Soho.
Microsoft Moves Office 365 To The Cloud
Microsoft is moving into Google’s turf by bringing Office 365 to the cloud. The basic price is $6 per month.
Office 365 brings together Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. It is available now in beta in 13 countries including the US, Canada, the UK, France, Japan, Mexico and Germany.
OnLive Cloud Gaming To Launch June 17
The OnLive gaming service will be available starting from June 17th in the US. The monthly service fee is $15. However, if you are one of the lucky first 25,000 people to sign up, you will get your first three months for free. Service fee does not include the purchase or rental of games.
From OnLive Blog: Included in your monthly service fee are OnLive-exclusive features such as instant-play free game demos; multiplayer across PC, Mac and TV platforms; massive spectating; viewing of Brag Clips™ video capture and posting; and cloud-saving of games you’ve purchased—pause, and instantly resume from anywhere, even on a different platform.
Also included in the monthly service fee are features you’d expect from standard online games services such as gamer tags, user profiles, friends, chat, but with a twist: everything is live video. You’ll be friending through multiplay, Spectating, Brag Clips, or by flipping through video profiles of friends of friends of friends. OnLive is delivering the first instant video-based social network.
