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Fujitsu: Cheap servers can't fit all cloud roles

Fujitsu: Cheap servers can't fit all cloud roles

Fujitsu chief technology officer Joseph Reger explains why we still need high-end hardware despite schemes such as Facebook's Open Compute Project pushing commodity servers in cloud datacentres. Read more

28 April, 2012 by Jack Clark
Netflix: How we got a grip on AWS's cloud

Netflix: How we got a grip on AWS's cloud

...the past few years developing a global video distribution system using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. By outsourcing to Amazon, the company says it... Read more

18 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

Amazon switches on DynamoDB cloud database service

...Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into... Read more

19 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Adobe and AWS give Flash a cloud option

...is now available as a pay-as-you-go option on the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing technology, the companies announced on Wednesday. Flash Media... Read more

16 December, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

ElasticHosts unveils simple cloud web hosting for SMEs

...have the technical expertise or the time to get to grips with Amazon Web Services's sprawling set of technologies. "We've tried to build... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

Oracle: Enterprise cloud adoption could take 30 years

It could be 30 years before major enterprises move the majority of their IT operations to the public cloud, thanks to a 'generational' mistrust of cloud security, according to a senior Oracle executive Read more

25 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Amazon Web Services to make free cloud offer

...The cloud-computing subsidiary of Amazon, Amazon Web Services, announced on Thursday that it will offer first-time users... Read more

22 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

AWS makes itself a home for penetration testing

...s security policies may flag, need to fill out a validation form. Amazon Web Services (AWS) then checks and verifies this before letting them run... Read more

25 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Joyent infrastructure cloud touches down in Europe

...give it the resources to expand globally and take on cloud incumbent Amazon Web Services. Joyent also plans to open datacentres in Singapore and Tokyo... Read more

19 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

HP's business-oriented cloud takes aim at AWS

...HP is plotting a business-oriented cloud that is set to challenge Amazon Web Services's cloud market share. Zorawar Singh, senior vice president and... Read more

12 March, 2012 by Rachel King

Netflix exec: Amazon is the iPhone of the cloud

...in mobile. Image credit: Netflix That is because like Apple's iOS, Amazon Web Services was first into the field and has established itself as... Read more

2 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

Joyent gets $85m to take on Amazon in cloud

...dollars in investor funding to help it close its datacentre gap with Amazon Web Services. The $85m (£54m) investment, announced on Monday, will help San... Read more

24 January, 2012 by Jack Clark
Oracle: Our cloud to be cheap as open source

Oracle: Our cloud to be cheap as open source

...In the past we've seen things such as Oracle linking into Amazon Web Services. Do you see it happening with the cloud, where I... Read more

20 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

AWS cloud accidentally deletes customer data

...bug began deleting customer data after the outage on Sunday, according to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The cloud services provider was still attempting to recover... Read more

10 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

AWS cloud outage knocks out Quora, Reddit

...Amazon Web Services's cloud-computing infrastructure experienced a brief network outage on... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Steven Musil

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