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Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage (Phil Wainewright/Software as Services Blog)

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Phil Wainewright / Software as Services Blog:
Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage  —  As of the latest update this afternoon on Amazon’s Service Health Dashboard, only a handful of customers are still waiting for their EBS and RDS instances to be restored after Thursday’s harrowing outage.  But for everyone involved …

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Lessons from Hewlett-Packard’s massive job cuts (Chris O’Brien/Mercury News)

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Chris O’Brien / Mercury News:
Lessons from Hewlett-Packard’s massive job cuts  —  This column began when I tried to find the answer to what I thought would be a simple question: How many job cuts has Hewlett-Packard had over the past decade?  —  The answer shocked me:  —  75,505.  —  That includes people who were fired or took early retirement.

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