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The cloud is cool. But it's not always there. That's what some Amazon customers learned today after another outage on Amazon's cloud computing platform knocked off several popular websites offline. Foursquare said the failure kept it and other services from working for "about 2 hours," according to an email from spokeswoman Erin Gleason.

Dropbox is running servers equipped with solid-state drives, also known as SSDs -- super-fast storage devices that could one day replace traditional hard drives. The company doesn't use SSDs in all its servers, but it's moving in that direction.

With the food business thriving again in the midst of America's economic upswing - consistently claiming a whopping 4 percent of GDP -- some of the nation's top eateries are quietly embracing data mining to eke out profit in a tough economy.

"If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age - a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest-you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture factories. Now it's the home of a Google data center."

"An employee* in the Los Angeles office of Sony Pictures Entertainment SNE 1.94% opened up to Fortune about the personal ordeal they went through following revelations of North Korea's alleged cyber attack on the company. What follows is their words, condensed and edited for clarity."