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These Cloud Computing Vendors are Edging Up on AWS
Sure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the golden child of cloud computing, but Microsoft Azure isn't too far behind. And according to Gartner’s recently released Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas), it's starting to nip into AWS’s market.
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Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances Price Drops
Amazon continues to put pressure on the compute on demand market by once again dropping the price of its EC2 Dedicated Instances this week by as much as 80%. The Importance of Scale Because Amazon employs such a huge cache of networked servers, it can afford to consistently drop prices
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Tibco Partners with Amazon AWS for Cloud Launch of Tibbr Social Network
Enterprise middleware vendor Tibco has partnered with Amazon AWS and The Netherlands based KPN for the cloud launch of its tibbr social network. Touted by Forrester as one of the top enterprise social activity streams, tibbr is now available in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace, the app store for
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Cloud Computing: Back to the Future
We may as well admit it, cloud computing has been changing our lives for some time now. When was the last time you didn't save something to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box? Most, if not all of your information lives somewhere in the ether.
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Amazon EC2 Instances Set to Include Virtual Private Clouds
Organizations looking to move any development into the cloud have yet another reason to choose Amazon as the company rolls out virtual private clouds to new instances of its EC2 computing system. Hybrid Clouds a Bridge to the Enterprise As some of the largest companies in the world begin
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Amazon Deploys Two More EC2 Instance Types, Introduces AWS Data Pipeline #reinvent
Amazon announced two more EC2 instance types at its first ever partner conference reInvent this week, and also showed off a new analytics tool called AWS Data Pipeline. Cloud Based Big Data During the Amazon re:Invent day two keynote address, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels shared his 21st century application commandments
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Amazon AWS Opens Up for Dynamic Web Content on CloudFront
Amazon's CloudFront has long let users host and distribute the static content elements for websites. Now the service can play host to dynamic content as well, adding support for the full scope of a dynamic, content-rich site or service with access to EC2 applications.
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eXo Portal Introduces Support for Ruby, Partner Red Hat Releases Multi-Language PaaS
eXo (news, site), well-known for its Java portal and user experience technologies, has announced it is adding Ruby and Git to its eXo Cloud IDE. The inclusion of Git will enable direct deployment to Red Hat's new OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
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Amazon Failure: Let the Hindsight (and Reimbursements) Begin
See what happened was… The entire internet and traditional media have constantly focused on the most talked about technology outage since the airline reservation system crashed a decade ago: cloud failure. Now that Amazon's EC2 service is back up and an apology has been issued, let the hindsight discussions
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Forrester Predicts SaaS Will Own All Other Cloud Segments
Earlier this week -- during the Amazon EC2 outage -- Forrester Research released its report "Sizing the Cloud," which projects the size of the cloud and its various xxx–as-a-service segments between 2011 and 2020. According to the report, the world market for cloud service will expand from $40.
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Nimbula Director Out of Beta; Free License Available
We earlier introduced Nimbula Director (news, site) as an on-premise cloud management system akin to Amazon EC2.
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eXo Releases Cloud IDE for Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
It didn’t take long for treasures to start emerging from Amazon’s recently announced Elastic Beanstalk. eXo (news, site ) has released an integrated development environment (IDE) for Elastic Beanstalk -- developed for the cloud, in the cloud.
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A New High-Performance, Low Cost Cloud Service for APAC
The Asia Pacific region is seen as a growth market in cloud services, which makes it an attractive area for service providers. A recent announcement by KT (news, site ) involves the launch of a public cloud service that is said to beat comparable services in terms of
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Adobe Flash Media Server Hits Amazon Cloud
Amazon added support for Adobe Flash Media Server 4 (news, site) on its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Flash Popping Up Everywhere In the same day that we reported on Flash becoming available on the iPad via Skyfire, Flash Media Server (FMS) is partnering with
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