Google Drive Outage
Monday morning. Not the best time to learn of a service outage, let alone a Google Drive outage. The tech giant first reported a problem at 10:17 AM EST Monday, March 18. Later, at 11:10 AM, Google reported that the outage was affecting a significant number of users, and that its technicians were working to [...]
Taking your Office to the Cloud
Plenty of IT departments these days are looking for opportunities to move things out of their server rooms, and into someone else’s. This has led to the rise of popular services, including Google Apps and Office 365 – with their email, calendaring and other web-based services – present replacement options for software running on enterprise [...]
European Cloud Computing Concerns
European cloud trends have raised some new concerns regarding data protection. It’s no question that EU data protection legislation is far more stringent than its American counterparts. However, certain observers believe that this controversy is created because of financial motivations, rather than security concerns. This article takes a look at the controversy in the EU [...]
City of Los Angeles Backs Out of Google Contract
In mid-December 2011, the city council of Los Angeles voted to amend their contract with Google Apps due to security and privacy concerns. Rather than transfer its email services to Google’s cloud, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) decided to back out of its contract, instead opting to stay with its on-site Novell platform for [...]
Apple iCloud
On June 6, 2011, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the upcoming fall release of iCloud, on online cloud storage service designed to wirelessly store and share music, email, photos calendars and other data between Apple’s handheld gadgets and desktop computers. The service uses already existing cloud computing techniques to make the convenience and flexibility of [...]
