“The cloud is falling! The cloud is falling! No, seriously. It keeps falling,” wrote PCWorld’s Tony Bradley in a post the other day about how some popular cloud services were recently down. In a weird coincidence, last Wednesday Microsoft’s Office 365 and SkyDrive and Google Docs were all hit by outages, with some customers saying they lost access to e-mail and other services for up to four hours. READ MORE
If you’re planning to move from on-premise hardware and applications to a hosted cloud platform, you need to ask some tough questions before signing a contract. READ MORE
Hosting giant GoDaddy announced its own cloud computing service called Data Center On Demand, but don’t expect another Amazon Web Services or Rackspace clone. Unlike many other user-friendly cloud services, GigaOM reports GoDaddy’s offering “requires technical expertise,” so GoDaddy suggests customers have a professional IT staff already in place. READ MORE
