Today, tons of websites and mobile apps rely on Amazon S3 and other cloud-based services. Clouds have proven convenient and cost-effective. But  to guard against when clouds fail Cloud Foundry Foundation CTO Chip Childers suggests a multi-cloud approach.

For web site and application operators, attacks at the application layer can be varied – and catastrophic. Webscale is adding a SaaS-based firewall to its cloud-based web application delivery platform.