Walgreens names new CIO

Walgreens has promoted Steve Turner to CIO, effective April 1. The company veteran oversaw the pharmacy retailer’s foray into Hadoop data analytics. Turner will work with outgoing CIO Abhi Dhar during the transition. “Steve’s experience and his deep knowledge of our systems position him well to move into this new role,” a Walgreens spokesman told…

AWS says a typo caused the massive S3 failure this week

Everyone makes mistakes. But working at Amazon Web Services means an incorrectly entered input can lead to a massive outage that cripples popular websites and services. That’s apparently what happened earlier this week, when the AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) in the provider’s Northern Virginia region experienced an 11-hour system failure. Other Amazon services in…

AWS blames a typo for Tuesday’s outage

Amazon Web Services said today its outage earlier this week that affected major websites and apps was caused by human error. Sites including Netflix, Reddit and the Associated Press struggled for hours on Tuesday — all because of a simple typo. “While we are proud of our long track record of availability with Amazon S3,…

HPE refocuses tech services group on cloud, big data

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has revamped its existing technology services unit to focus on helping customers adopt emerging technologies, including cloud computing, the internet of things, and big data. HPE’s new Pointnext technology services division, announced Thursday, is designed to help businesses speed up their adoption of several technologies, also including hybrid IT services and analytics, the…