Google Cloud open for business – includes $US400 cover charge
Google earlier this month made a significant Cloud announcement, opening up its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering to customers and removing the beta tag from the service.
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.
View ArticlePlatform-as-service offerings blurring lines between cloud packages
Cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is for renting storage and compute capacity from a service provider, delivered via an Internet connection. Similarly, software as a service (SaaS) is for...
View ArticleNewvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds
Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now...
View ArticlePublic cloud shakeup: VMware in, Dell out, and OpenStack in limbo?
It's been a busy week in the cloud. Dell ditched plans to build its own cloud and instead will work with partners, while focusing on private clouds. In an opposite move, VMware revealed its plans for...
View ArticleIBM: Hey CIA, why let Amazon build you a private cloud?
Amazon pulled off a coup a few months back, reportedly securing a $600 million contract to build a cloud for the CIA.
View ArticleIBM complaint might have just cost Amazon $600M CIA cloud deal
Amazon Web Services may have just lost out on a $600 million contract to supply cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency, after the federal government upheld a protest that IBM had...
View ArticleVMware: We're building one of the biggest SDN deployments in the industry
VMware hopes to make the networking components of its soon-to-be-released vCloud Hybrid Service one of its biggest selling points, and in doing so the company plans to build one the largest...
View ArticleAmazon 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.
View ArticleAmazon: New analytics tool can scrutinise massive amounts of data
Amazon Web Services this week rolled out a new cloud-based data analytics tool named Kenesis, which can analyze massive amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour.
View ArticleA wake-up call for the Cloud
Every so often something happens that should make people stop and think. That may have just happened in the Cloud.
View Article5 key takeaways from Amazon's big Cloud day
Amazon Web Services continued to push the IaaS market forward today by challenging established cloud players like Box and Dropbox with the company's own document collaboration platform and rolling out...
View ArticleAWS readies for major reboot
Amazon Web Services will be updating a substantial number of its Cloud servers, and has asked customers to re-launch their instances in the coming days, according to AWS consultants
View ArticleAmazon launches German cloud region in nod to privacy concerns
Amazon Web Services launched a new region of its cloud in Germany Thursday, in part to serve customers who want to keep data within their country's borders.
View Articlebase2Services selected as AWS partner for US media portal
Cloud operations and management company, base2Services, has been selected as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner for US social news and media portal, All Day.
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