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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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CMSWire's Top 10 Hits of 2014: Web CMS
It’s been a year of drama for the Web CMS space — or at least a fourth quarter of drama – with rumors aplenty at year-end around Ektron sales and mergers and news of Drupal’s “highly critical” security flaw. Some of these stories made CMSWire’s Top 10 list for
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Google Price Cuts, Amazon Restructuring Shake Up the Cloud
An information technology research firm has announced a decline in its cloud price index (CPI), attributing the fall to price cuts at Google and reductions of up to 43 percent on bandwidth by Amazon Web Services (AWS). 451 Research's Cloud Price Index fell 1.
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Outage Outrage As Microsoft's Azure Stumbles
Microsoft is trying to recover from a widespread outage that affected its Azure cloud platform across multiple regions. The company acknowledged that 11-hour issue, which started last night, affected customers with virtual machines in all regions other than the new Australian data center.
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AWS Supports Hybrid Cloud with EC2 Container Service #reinvent
“Why do developers love containers?” This is the question Werner Vogels, CTO and Vice President of Amazon.com, asked attendees of the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas just before announcing the preview availability of EC2 Container Services (ECS) – the new service for managing Docker containers that boosts AWS support
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AWS Woos Enterprises with New Security Services #reinvent
Amazon is taking steps to ease enterprises’ biggest concerns around moving to its AWS platform. During a keynote at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas yesterday, the company announced three new security and compliance services developed specifically for enterprise customers.
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Sooner or Later We'll Learn How Smart Jeff Bezos Really Is
Shareholders are getting increasingly impatient with Amazon and its casual attitude toward profits. The company just delivered a disappointing earnings report that surprised the Street -- even though Amazon warned in its last report that the third quarter would be grim.
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Take a Seat Google, Amazon: Microsoft's Cloud Wins the Day
Though the new mobile-first, cloud-first Microsoft is more open and plays nice with everyone, it also wants to knock the socks, shirt and hat off of the competition. And, if CEO Satya Nadella is right, it has everything it needs to do so.
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B2B Suppliers are Losing Market Share to B2C Websites
B2B buyers in the United States are more active online than ever before. But few are successfully leveraging their suppliers’ websites to find the information and make the purchases they need. Instead, they're turning to third-party e-commerce sites like Amazon, according to the 2014 Acquity Group State of B2B Procurement.
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Was Amazon Web Services the Winner in Xen Cloud Reboot?
A cloud portfolio management provider has done some Monday-morning quarterbacking through cloud hosting customers affected by the recent Xen hypervisor problem and reboot for major cloud players. The winner? If you go by Rightscale's numbers released today -- they surveyed about 449 customers of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and SoftLayer
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