Online reputations in the dirt.

The article focuses on a software glitch that on April 26, 2011 resulted in numerous web sites hosted by electronic commerce company Amazon.com to crash, and electronics conglomerate Sony's revelation that customer account information was stolen by hackers. It states that the outage at Amazon.com is...

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Publicado en:	Economist Vol. 399; no. 8731; pp. 65 - 66
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Economist Newspaper Limited 4/30/2011
Materias:	Computer system failures Websites Computer hacking Cloud computing Computer network architectures Sony Corp. Amazon.com Inc. Netflix Inc.
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Sumario:	The article focuses on a software glitch that on April 26, 2011 resulted in numerous web sites hosted by electronic commerce company Amazon.com to crash, and electronics conglomerate Sony's revelation that customer account information was stolen by hackers. It states that the outage at Amazon.com is unlikely to stop the shift to cloud computing. It mentions that on-demand internet streaming video company Netflix avoided problems due to its network architecture and testing of cloud-based systems.