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Microsoft Reinvents The Meaning Of PaaS--Welcome To The Microservices Future. The Cloud Keeps Tying to Disintermediate the CIO. The Cloud keeps attempting to disintermediate the CIO. Google's Cloud War Ratchets Up - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha. Most Popular Apps Employees Use At Work. Flickr/Sander Spolspoel In the olden days, like in 2006 (before Apple introduced the iPhone), the apps that employees used for work were the apps their companies gave them.

No longer. Today employees and IT departments work together to choose apps. Sometimes employees simply buy the apps and load them onto their own PCs, tablets, and smartphones themselves. The apps that employees bring in has been dubbed "shadow IT" and a company called Skyhigh Networks helps IT departments discover these apps to make sure they are licensed properly and are secure.

Skyhigh tracks cloud usage data from over 13 million enterprise employees and 350 companies. The results were pretty surprising. Here’s the Google vs. Amazon pricing breakdown. God bless RightScale. It did the math to calculate how Google’s new price cuts compare with current Amazon Web Services pricing so I didn’t have to. And here are the results first comparing new Google pricing to one-year AWS Reserved Instances (RIs).

And here’s the how Google stacks up against the even cheaper AWS three-year RIs. RightScale, based in Santa Barbara, Calif., has to stay on top of this stuff because it offers tools and consoles that help companies monitor and manage multicloud deployments and to forecast costs. More details are available on the Rightscale blog. A quarter of British and Canadian businesses want their data taken out of U.S., according to Peer1. The NSA’s shenanigans are having a very real effect on businesses’ data storage decisions, according to Canadian cloud and hosting provider Peer1. The company surveyed 300 businesses in the UK and Canada and discovered that 25 percent intended to move their company data out of the United States over NSA fears.

U.S. laws compel any company located there to give intelligence agencies access to customer data if they ask for it. The survey also found that 4 in 5 businesses see privacy laws as the primary factor when considering where to put their data. Almost 70 percent said they would sacrifice some latency in order to ensure data sovereignty, but most respondents admitted they didn’t know enough about data protection laws. Peer1 itself has infrastructure in the U.S., Canada and Britain, which may explain the focus of the survey. That said, the security benefits of moving data out of the U.S. are up for debate – the UK and Canada are both part of the U.S. Amazon EC2 troubles bring down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, Hootsuite and more - TNW Industry. Update: Affected websites are slowly coming back online, click here for more details. The popularity of Amazon’s cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its downside right now, with a number of popular websites and services throwing up errors or being down completely.

Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, Moby and Hootsuite are among those affected by technical troubles on Amazon’s servers. The company’s status dashboard currently shows problems with the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Relational Database Service operations, based in North Virginia, with connectivity issues confirmed. We can confirm connectivity errors impacting EC2 instances and increased latencies impacting EBS volumes in multiple availability zones in the US-EAST-1 region.

Increased error rates are affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls. We continue to work towards resolution Quora pulls no punches on its error page, stating: “We’d point fingers, but we wouldn’t be where we are today without EC2.” How has EC2's failure affected your perception of cloud computing?