Just when you thought it was safe to get into the storage cloud, AWS goes on the fritz. The AWS Service Health Dashboard says it all:
9:05 AM PDT We are currently experiencing elevated error rates with S3. We are investigating.
9:26 AM PDT We’re investigating an issue affecting requests. We’ll continue to post updates here.
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Google has a huge target taped to its back – everyone sees them as the search engine to beat. With over 50% of the search traffic going through Google, they are the obvious ones to target. How does Google do it now? Well, one of their secrets is commodity computer hardware – [...]

There are a lot of difficult problems out in the real world which require massive computational power to solve. Problems in genomics, scheduling, drug design, weather and the stock market. IBM refers to the class of tools required to address these complex problems Deep Computing. Basically, Deep Computing is the intelligent application [...]