In today's world, your applications and infrastructure performance have a direct impact on productivity, revenue, and costs. But what happens if it does not perform? When users are complaining about “slowness”, your business loses money when systems stagnate. Whether you’re using on-prem application hosting or cloud-based solutions, Edgeworx, together with its partners Aryaka and ThousandEyes will share their views on what it takes to ensure a stable, predictable and performing network infrastructure. Please join us for A Networking Breakfast - Global Network Performance & Achieving Optimal End User Experience. more information can be found here
So, what did we all take away from this week’s AWS outage? Depends who you ask. Plenty of us in IT think it was a good reminder to consider multicloud and hybrid cloud environments—basically, do not put all your cloud workload eggs in one AWS basket. The S3 storage outage affected about 150,000 websites hosted in Amazon’s US-EAST-1 region data center, which is in northern Virginia. The Amazon outage reminded everyone in IT for a day that cloud workloads are off-premises, and that they can go down at any time. Cloud still needs a recovery, backup and continuity plan. There’s also the time-tested caveat that people still run the cloud machines. The S3 outage this week happened when an engineer