Edge computing will blow away the cloud

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Network World Cloud Computing Alert Mar 02, 2017 Edge computing will blow away the cloud Self-contained devices, such as autonomous vehicles, drones and IoT devices, will push out cloud services as more computing moves to the edge, say venture capitalists. 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Read More ▶ 5 lessons from Amazon's S3 cloud blunder – and how to prepare for the next one This week's service disruption to Amazon's Simple Storage Service should be a wake up call to make sure your cloud-based applications are ready for the next time the cloud hiccups. These are five tips for preparing yourself for a cloud outage. Read More ▶ Azure Stack's third technical preview arrives Azure Stack, Microsoft's hybrid cloud system, is getting close to release. On Wednesday, the tech giant unveiled the third major public beta for customers that want to test it out. Read More ▶ Smart teddy bears involved in a contentious data breach If you own a stuffed animal from CloudPets, then you may have been hacked. The company's toys -- which can receive and send voice messages from children and parents -- have been involved in a serious data breach dealing with more than 800,000 user accounts. Read More ▶ 8 ways to make Amazon's Alexa even more awesome Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa, works remarkably well, but these improvements could dramatically extend its range and usefulness. Read More ▶ (2016) Did Google kill a … donkey? A few days ago I needed to know whether Google had actually killed a particular product or merely put it on a back burner, so I typed into the company's search-engine box: "Did Google kill …" Read More ▶ Half of the top 100 retail sites had slow load times during AWS's S3 outage, vendor finds Yesterday Amazon Web Services had a bad day. And when AWS has a bad day, so do a lot of other sites. Vendor Apica monitored the top 100 retail website and found that more than half had 20% longer load time than normal during the four-hour S3 disruption. Four sites in particularl were completely unavailable. 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