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Amazon’s European cloud struck by lightning, but Jitscale customers were not affected

Posted August 9, 2011 at 1:50 pm by Arjan de Jong in News. No Comments

Amazon’s Web Services’ European cloud suffered an outage over the weekend due to a lightning strike to the transformer at one of its power suppliers. The outage affected its European Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service (RDS) cloud services, among others.

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Windows Azure Cloud Appliance presented by Microsoft

Posted July 15, 2011 at 1:52 pm by admin in News. No Comments

During its yearly Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, Microsoft introduced Windows Azure Cloud Appliance to its partners. The appliance can be used by Microsoft partners to roll-out new cloud services in data centers. The available server capacity will be maximally utilized for the usage of business applications.

International growth in US dictates move to larger office

Posted July 12, 2011 at 10:18 am by Arjan de Jong in News. No Comments

Due to the many positive reactions from the business community to our international expansion and recent extension of IT management services, we are taking the next step in extending the IT services we offer to our customers in the US. In order to continue to meet the growing demand for our high quality IT management services, we moved our local team to a larger office and have intensified our ongoing search for skilled employees to add to our team of specialists.

Rackspace launches Cloud DNS

Posted at 8:28 am by admin in News. No Comments

Rackspace has launched its own Cloud DNS service, following Amazon’s Route 53.

Good news for Jitscale customers; Amazon lowers its data transfer prices

Posted June 30, 2011 at 3:42 pm by Arjan de Jong in News. No Comments

There is some good news for all Jitscale customers running their infrastracture on Amazon AWS. Amazon will lower its data transfer prices, making cloud computing – besides increasing the flexibility of your organization and improving the performance of your infrastructure – even more cost effective.

Amazon Web Services in trouble

Posted April 22, 2011 at 8:24 am by Arjan de Jong in News. No Comments

Some of Amazon’s Web Services are currently experiencing technical difficulties. HootSuite, Foursquare and some other well-known sites, that rely on Amazon AWS, are either down or have recently experienced downtime or latency issues.