Amazon EC2 boosts memory, Windows support
Amazon Web Services has added a new "high memory extra-large" instance option for its AWS' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, which provides scalable computing infrastructure over the Internet.
View ArticleAmazon Web Services CTO out to prove enterprise chops
There is still a misconception that Amazon Web Services exists to sell the company's excess server capacity, but that is not the case, CTO Werner Vogels said during a keynote at Cebit.
View ArticleCloud Computing: Early Adopters Share Five Key Lessons
While some large enterprises have moved their information-technology infrastructure to a third-party managed service to save costs, small firms--especially startups--have come to rely on cloud services...
View ArticleLinux KVM virtualization gains steam in cloud computing market
The Linux KVM hypervisor is gaining steam in the cloud computing market, with two major vendors using the virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon's popular EC2 service.
View ArticleRed Hat support subscription to cover Amazon's cloud
Red Hat Cloud Access will let enterprises use their subscriptions to support either traditional on-premise servers or servers hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, the company said on Tuesday.
View ArticleMicrosoft TechEd event to shed light on cloud computing plans
Microsoft will shed more light on its cloud computing strategy next week at the annual TechEd conference in New Orleans.
View ArticleEucalyptus expanded for Windows use
Eucalyptus Systems has released an update to the commercial version of its private cloud software, Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition.
View ArticleRackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in
Rackspace's contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary players like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2),...
View ArticleAmazon offering EC2 access at no charge
Amazon Web Services is rolling out an offer on Nov. 1 for new customers that provides one year of access to a "micro instance" on its Elastic Compute Cloud, as well as a number of other services, at no...
View ArticleAmazon Cloud outage bad for business
Outages to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offerings over the weekend have received plenty of global coverage, but they left at least one Australian business frustrated.
View ArticleAussie business largely unaffected by Amazon EC2 outage
Despite Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) services in the US-EAST-1 Web services centre having experienced another outage, as well as issues with the Amazon Relational Database Service in Virginia,...
View ArticleOpera responds to Amazon's Cloud-powered 'Silk' browser
One of to features of Amazon's recently announced Kindle Fire tablet drawing attention is its WebKit-based 'Silk' Web browser. What makes Silk different from most browsers is its 'split browser'...
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows Azure tops Cloud speed tests
Microsoft’s Windows Azure has come out on top in a year’s worth of Cloud speed tests, beating Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and 20 others.
View ArticleAmazon's cloud hiccups, again
Less than a month after a 12-hour-plus outage on Christmas Eve, Amazon Web Service's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service in its US-East availability zone experienced elevated error rates for about 45...
View ArticleCloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamouring for...
Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.
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