IWeek Rundown from Aug 1 by Aug 8

For the week of August 1, InformationWeek supplied up a sequence of tales that dove into cloud outages, which included Classes Discovered, written by Sal Salamone, managing editor of Community Computing. Sal recapped the key outages from current months and explored what precipitated them within the first place. This consists of CloudFlare in June, Microsoft Azure additionally in June, Google Cloud again in March, and lots of others.

The sequence consists of tales on resiliency and preparations CIOs could make for cloud outages, the controversy amongst lawmakers about setting new resiliency requirements for the cloud, and whether or not or not losses could be recovered after cloud outages hit.

Editor-in-chief Sara Peters combed by the archives of InformationWeek to place collectively a 15-year retrospective of our information protection from important cloud outages, together with the Amazon Outage of Easter 2011.

In different content material, the week additionally noticed a full-length podcast, on this channel, with GoDaddy’s CTO Charles Beadnall, the place we mentioned innovation, experimentation, and deployment in a put up go-fast, break issues world.

Developing for the week of August 8, InformationWeek has a chunk on knowledge assortment and privateness within the aftermath of the Supreme Courtroom dismantling Roe v Wade. Many firms are constructed round gathering knowledge from prospects, however will their enterprise fashions be sustainable in an period when private data would possibly fall beneath scrutiny from some state authorities?