Posts Categorized: Cloud

Is Google Drive Too Late to the Party?

Posted 8 May 2012 by Chris Evans

Like many people, the other week I downloaded and installed Google Drive. This is the long-awaited competitor to services like Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive. It offers free online storage with the ability to upgrade to higher capacity at a cost. Dropbox and the various other lookalikes have been around for some time, so is Google… Read more »

So Your AWS-based Application is Down? Don’t Blame Amazon

Posted 22 April 2011 by Chris Evans

After a busy day in London I returned home to read the news of issues in one of Amazon’s US data centre locations causing problems with EC2 and database (RDS) instances. It seems the services of many Internet companies were affected including Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite and FourSquare, Is it fair that Amazon should shoulder the… Read more »