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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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Published in:Economist Vol. 399; no. 8731; pp. 65 - 66
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 4/30/2011
Subjects:
Computer system failures
Websites
Computer hacking
Cloud computing
Computer network architectures
Sony Corp.
Amazon.com Inc.
Netflix Inc.
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.