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News: Amazon AWS S3 Outage

Ouch for our friends over at Amazon. It would seem S3 services are down which has a massive ripple effect across the landscape of many companies that are relying on the storage system. As you may know Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through […]

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Tech Short Q&A: What is a Hypervisor?

It’s interesting that this classification isn’t new. In fact it was classified by Gerald J. Popek back in 1974 in the article “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures” So to answer the question: A hypervisor is a hardware virtualization technique which allows multiple guest operating systems to run on a single host system hardware […]