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Cloud price increases damage trust
In general, the prices of cloud services either remain level…

Direct liquid cooling: pressure is rising but constraints remain
Direct liquid cooling (DLC) is a collection of techniques that…

The ultimate liquid cooling: heat rejection into water
Uptime Institute’s data on power usage effectiveness (PUE)…

Cloud SLAs punish, not compensate
A service level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a cloud…

Outages: understanding the human factor
Analyzing human error — with a view to preventing it — has…

Is concern over cloud and third-party outages increasing?
As a result of some high-profile outages and the growing interest…

The weakest link dictates cloud outage compensation
Cloud providers offer services that are assembled by users into…

Cloud generations drive down prices
Cloud providers need to deliver the newest capability to stay…

Why cloud is a kludge of complexity
The cloud model was designed to be simple and nimble. Simple…

Flexibility drives cloud lock-in risk
Vendor lock-in is regularly levied as a criticism of cloud services.…