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It's IT Blogwatch: in which Sun finally releases OpenSolaris, but with a surprising, cloud-computing twist, courtesy of Amazon EC2. Not to mention a joke for Photoshop users...

Heather Harreld Havenstein has, err, this: [Good grief -Ed.]

Amazon (AMZN) regrets to announce that its Amazon Web Services EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service has permanently lost some customer data. After the extended outage last week, some storage volumes seem to be unrecoverable. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers learn virtualization lessons. Not to mention Simon's Cat, in 'Hop It'...

Updated: Amazon (AMZN) has offered its promised mea culpa. It's published its post-mortem on the recent outage of its AWS EC2 (Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud) and RDS (Relational Database Service). In the writeup, it says what went wrong and how it's planning to avoid such problems in the future. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers read and inwardly-digest it. Not to mention Mario With A Portal Gun...

If you still think Ubuntu is just this cute little Linux for Linux fans, boy do you have a surprise waiting for you in Ubuntu Server 9.04.

It's always been possible to make your own Linux distributions, but now Novell has made it easier than ever and will offer business support for your particular spin.

The new Ubuntu is more than just a good Linux desktop distribution; it's Canonical's shot at the business server big-time.

Amazon was pretty clear on how customers need to architect their accounts to guard against problems like last week's Eastern region failure.

For the price of $6, two security researchers were able launch a denial-of-service attack and take down a target's server in the cloud.

Updated: In the curious case of Amazon's cloud outage, I was utterly horrified to read one of the company's customer communications this morning. Amazon recently wrote to the customers who lost data last week; reading what they said, I can scarcely believe my eyes. Let's take a look, in The Long View...

I use a three step process for trying out a new technology:

1. Find a way to try it out with minimal time and budget impact.
2. Discuss my experience in a large community.
3. Try it again.

Over the festive break there were quite a few announcements related to Amazon's EC2 service.

Whether you're a service provider, an application architect, or an end user, the cloud is still pretty cloudy. But we've already moved on to talking about standards. Is it too early, an impossible goal, or a productive conversation? The thing is, the cloud is changing how we do business. The cloud will change how we do standardization as well.