IWeek Rundown from Aug 1 through Aug 8

For the week of August 1, InformationWeek provided up a sequence of tales that dove into cloud outages, which included Lessons Learned, written by Sal Salamone, managing editor of Network Computing. Sal recapped the key outages from latest months and explored what brought on them within the first place. This contains CloudFlare in June, Microsoft Azure additionally in June, Google Cloud again in March, and lots of others.

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

Editor-in-chief Sara Peters combed through 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.

Coming up for the week of August 8, InformationWeek has a chunk on knowledge assortment and privateness within the aftermath of the Supreme Court dismantling Roe v Wade. Many corporations are constructed round gathering knowledge from clients, however will their enterprise fashions be sustainable in an period when private info may fall beneath scrutiny from some state authorities?

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