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Amazon and Microsoft Have Someone to Worry About
If the cloud chiefs at Amazon and Microsoft thought that they only had each other to watch out for, they best think again. And no, we’re not suggesting that they turn their heads to see what SAP’s platform solutions president Steve Lucas is up to, what IBM CEO Ginni Rommety
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The Curious Link Between Amazon and Utility Companies
There is absolutely no question that Amazon Web Services remains the world’s leading supplier of cloud computing infrastructure. That shouldn’t be a problem, when you’re the leader in a global market. But that infrastructure has become a commodity, with its value determined largely by the market at large.
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Just What We Need, Another BI Tool #reinvent
Stories are legion of impatient managers who won’t wait for IT to provide them with the business intelligence (BI) tools and services they need. They simply find their own way around IT.
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Amazon Fights to Avoid Underdog Status at #reinvent
Amazon Web Services is heavily reliant upon its partners: all of AWS is an ecosystem. What distinguishes the value of a public cloud service provider from all the others, especially in a market where costs have become commoditized, are the depth and adaptability of the services it offers.
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A Familiar Face Will Dominate B2B E-Commerce
Here we are, over 20 years after the emergence of e-commerce, and while it has captured imaginations and created some over the top retail success stories — the $90 billion revenue behemoth Amazon comes to mind — business to business (B2B) e-commerce remains an enigma.
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Calm Down, Everyone: Amazon Prime Won’t Limit Shipping
Amazon Prime customers had a quite a scare this week when The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets reported that members would no longer receive unlimited two-day shipping on all Prime items.
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3 Ways Jet.com Can Compete with Amazon
It’s been 13 days since the official launch of Jet.com, and speculation is flying about whether or not the new online marketplace will be able to topple Amazon from its e-commerce throne — or at least rock it a little. Promoted as an online membership store, Montclair, N.J.
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Amazon's Gateway Shakes Up the API Economy
What has come to be called the “API economy” is comprised in large measure of services that host customers’ APIs using Amazon EC2 as their cloud platforms, and attaching management services as their value-add.
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Jaws Dropped at Oracle’s PaaS Event
If you thought you could count Oracle out of the cloud-first world, you best think again.
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Microsoft Beats Amazon in Cloud Storage [Infographic]
Think Microsoft has been making ground in the file storage space? You're right. Recent research from Nasuni, a cloud storage management company, shows Microsoft Azure beats Amazon Web Services S3 and Google Cloud Storage in the enterprise storage space.
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Can You Name the 3 Leaders in the Public Enterprise Cloud Space?
Put your money on hybrid cloud computing — and Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Rackspace. But be forewarned: Security (or lack thereof) is still a concern and one of the chief reasons for underuse of cloud resources. The findings, contained in RightScale’s State of the Cloud Report for 2015
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Amazon Muscles Deeper into the Enterprise Space
Amazon Web Services has introduced several upgrades aimed at moving it deeper into the enterprise space. Its identity and access management (IAM) upgrades, for instance, make it easier for enterprise users and, specifically, systems administrators, to manage and change identities and security settings.
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Jet Targets Amazon After $140 Million Funding Round
E-commerce start-up Jet.com, the latest project of Marc Lore, who famously sold Diaper.com to Amazon for $545 million, has just announced it has raised another $140 million on top of the $80 million it already raised. The Wall St.
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3 Reasons Amazon's Email Could Dent Google, Microsoft
Think Microsoft and Google have the business email market tied-up? Think again. Amazon has come up with a new business email service called WorkMail that ties in nicely with its file-sharing service Zocalo, and WorkSpaces, a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution.
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