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  • How to compare cloud costs between Amazon, Microsoft and Google

    Comparing cloud prices between AWS, Azure and Google is not as straightforward as comparing one Cyber Monday deal to another. Cloud pricing is a complicated science. But if you know how to work the system, there are ways to save money.

    Written by Brandon Butler30 Nov. 16 00:26
  • What to do when the cloud eats your hardware vendor

    Cloud revenues are increasing while traditional hardware vendors are either entrenching in their legacy strategies, expanding to new markets or transforming themselves. A new report from Forrester has advice about what enterprise buyers need to do in these tumultuous times.

    Written by Brandon Butler07 Sept. 16 07:05
  • How a giant like GE found home in the Cloud

    During the past few years, leaders at General Electric have been aggressively migrating the 123-year-old company to the Cloud. But it hasn’t been easy. GE’s CTO for IT explains what roadblocks the industrial giant encountered, and what he’s doing now to ensure other companies who follow suit have a smoother journey.

    Written by Brandon Butler18 April 16 20:00
  • Amazon to sell WiFi, IoT chips

    Annapurna Labs Inc., a company quietly bought by Amazon last year, announced this week that it will expand its efforts to sell chips for use in next-generation WiFi and Internet of Things devices.

    Written by Brandon Butler07 Jan. 16 21:16
  • Amazon touts improved cloud security at re:Invent

    Security is a hot topic at AWS re:Invent this year as AWS has launched new security products and big enterprise customers like Capital One and GE help convince customers that the cloud is secure.

    Written by Brandon Butler08 Oct. 15 16:31
  • Datacom sees jump in revenue across ANZ

    The New Zealand business has increased its revenue year on year with an increase of 9.2 per cent, continuing a decade plus of consistent growth, reports Datacom CEO Jonathan Ladd.

    Written by CIO New Zealand18 Aug. 15 14:15
  • Amazon cuts cost of running Oracle's database in its cloud

    Amazon Web Services now lets companies run Oracle's database for about 3 cents per hour, while at the same time adding more options for enterprises that want to move high performance workloads to the cloud.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs07 Aug. 15 21:03
  • Amazon releases open source cryptographic module

    Potentially saving the world from another online security disaster like last year's Heartbleed, Amazon Web Services has released as open source a cryptographic module for securing sensitive data passing over the Internet.

    Written by Joab Jackson01 July 15 03:03