Last April, Microsoft committed to matching Amazon’s Web Services prices for compute, storage and bandwidth.
Verizon signs-up Oracle to tackle Amazon in the cloud
Verizon is building up its cloud service to take on the heavyweight of the industry – Amazon Web Services – and says it took a big step toward that direction by partnering with Oracle this week.
Bring on the services
There is an increasing emphasis on service-aligned approach to IT operations so that CIOs can deliver on the promise of partnering with business. Ashish Kuthiala, Chief Marketing Officer, Business Services Management Software, HP, talks about the value of a services aligned view of IT.
Amazon: New analytics tool can scrutinise massive amounts of data
Amazon Web Services this week released its new cloud-based data analytics tool Kinesis, which can analyse large amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour.
Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud
Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that picture as well.
Amazon hiring 'top secret' IT staff as it fights for CIA work
The U.S. isn’t doing a good job keeping secrets. Think Edward Snowden. But demand for trustworthy IT professionals is strong, especially if they want to work for Amazon Web Services.
EMC takes on Amazon, Microsoft with public-cloud alternative
EMC today unveiled a new product initiative called Project Nile, which it expects will be the world’s first commercially available, complete …
Capgemini allows companies to move data analytics into Amazon cloud
Capgemini has launched an on-demand analytics platform via Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give companies a cost-effective way to handle their Big Data.
Nginx Web server goes commercial with new release
Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs).
Amazon revamps push notification service as cloud providers target mobile developers
This week Amazon Web Services made it easier for mobile developers to send push notifications at massive scale to all types of end points.
Amazon improves performance of CloudFormation management platform
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added new features to the company’s management platform CloudFormation that aim to improve performance and …
Why Amazon and others don't specifically report cloud revenues
Recent news that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how IBM reports its cloud computing revenues begs the question: Why are …
Apple looks to pick off engineers from Amazon, OpenStack to build out iCloud
Apple is on the hunt for cloud infrastructure engineers familiar with building large-scale deployments like those at Amazon Web Services and OpenStack companies, according to a job posting.
Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public cloud-weary enterprises
Amazon Web Services Wednesday dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware.
Web suffered 9000 service outages in last five months
Seeing a “404 error” or the Twitter “Fail Whale” can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service …
Amazon looks to move security appliances to the cloud, says CISO
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption …
Amazon Cloud Drive takes aim at Dropbox, Google with sync feature
Amazon is making a serious play for Dropbox and Google Drive users with a new file-syncing feature in its Cloud Drive …
Amazon makes it easier to track costs, usage in its cloud
Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track …
Amazon introduces data warehouse service
Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, …
Amazon records first net loss in nine years
Amazon.com made a net loss in the third quarter, its first loss in nine years, even as revenue increased by …