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On-demand-software giant Salesforce.com just acquired a cloud software startup called Heroku for $212 million in cash. That’s par for the course these days as cloud computing goes from buzzword to reality. And venture capitalis…
Don’t blame the hackers.
Amazon.com (AMZN) said its websites in Europe suffered an outage of more than 30 minutes on Sunday night.
The online retailer said the outage was due to a “hardware failure” rather than a politically motivated cyber assault.
“The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in our European datacenter network and…
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Amazon European Sites Suffer Outage Due to ‘Hardware Failure’ originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:46:00.
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