Amazon puts SQL in the cloud
News That's why we built Amazon RDS [Relational Database Service], which combines a familiar relational database with automated management and the instant scalability of the AWS cloud," Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web Services, said in a...
[October 28, 2009, 16:14]
Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream
News It can mean anything from raw computing services that can be bolted together, as in the case of Amazon Web Services, to finished products such as the Picnik photo-editing site or Salesforce.com customer-management service.
[April 9, 2009, 8:54]
Google wants businesses to have faith in the cloud
News One is open-source monitoring-and-management-software company Hyperic, which launched a CloudStatus service in June that monitors Amazon Web Services in greater detail. The second category involves general-purpose foundations such as Amazon Web...
[July 14, 2008, 17:43]
BMC management tool rides Amazon cloud
News BMC Software is tapping into Amazon Web Services for a new tool that will manage both in-house and cloud-based services through a single portal. The new Business Service Management (BSM) platform, announced on Wednesday, will allow companies to dip...
[July 17, 2009, 8:15]
Amazon launches Virtual Private Cloud service
News Amazon Web Services has launched a secure bridging service designed to connect enterprise datacentres with its cloud, filling in a missing part of its cloud lineup for enterprises. With Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), announced in a blog post on...
[August 27, 2009, 12:40]
Amazon cloud service out of beta, adds Windows
News The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a service that gives customers on-demand access to Linux servers, is now out of beta testing, said Jeff Barr, evangelist for the collection of online options collectively called Amazon Web Services (AWS).
[October 24, 2008, 10:10]
Amazon expands cloud services for the enterprise
News Amazon Web Services has been offering on-demand computing and storage capacity for three years through its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) and now the company wants to make it easier for businesses to use them.
[May 5, 2009, 16:02]
Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?
Comment Figure 1: Amazon.com vs Amazon Web Services bandwidth However, Amazon has arguably become the current market leader in utility computing by using the knowledge it gained in building the infrastructure for its e-commerce business and turning it into...
[July 3, 2009, 12:01]
I wandered lonely as an unmanaged cloud service
Blog Would you be suspicious if a company told you that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce etc.were suffering from management and monitoring gaps and that their product filled those holes? IDC predicts that spending on cloud services will reach US$42...
[November 12, 2008, 7:47]
