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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.…

Are proof-of-work blockchains a corporate sustainability issue?
The data center and IT industry is a relatively minor — but nevertheless significant — contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

The insider threat: Social engineering is raising security risks
Uptime Institute Members say one of their most vexing security…

Extreme weather affects nearly half of data centers
Recent extreme weather-related events in the US (the big freeze…