1. Best of the Data Center Blogs, July 5th

    Best of the Data Center Blogs, July 5th

    Here’s a roundup of some interesting items we came across this week in our reading of data center industry blogs: Outages and the Weakonomics of Public Cloud – Thoughts on cloud deployments from Greg Ness at Archimedius: “The latest Amazon outage again begs whether or not Amazon’s customers are technology leaders or laggards simply trying to reduce IT costs to their bare minimum. Certainly some enterprises are properly using the public cloud for key projects where a non-critical application or service needs to be created quickly and within a low budget. Yet some companies seem to be using the public cloud for even predictable workloads, with the idea of minimizing costs even to the point of accepting higher risk.”

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