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  • Amazon offers network file storage in the cloud

    Amazon Web Services continues to chip away at the enterprise storage market, with plans for a new service designed to be a nimbler alternative to network attached storage (NAS) appliances.

    Written by Joab Jackson10 April 15 06:53
  • Amazon Web Services offers free satellite imagery

    Amazon Web Services is offering its customers free use of over 85,000 satellite images, setting the stage for new types of geographically-oriented cloud applications.

    Written by Joab Jackson20 March 15 09:26
  • Software AG hitches Cloud wagon to AWS

    Cloud computing may not be the optimal approach to every business problem, but Software AG wants to make sure its enterprise customers at least have the option.

    Written by Katherine Noyes13 March 15 10:57
  • Don’t expect the demise of email at work soon

    But watch out for new features using analytics to filter information and help decide which ones to act on, according to Constellation Research’s State of Collaboration 2015.

    Written by Divina Paredes04 Feb. 15 06:30
  • Amazon Web Services updates console to simplify management

    As enterprises have increased the number of systems they run on Amazon Web Service's cloud, keeping track of it all has become more difficult. But the company is now trying to rectify that with the help of better tagging.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs19 Dec. 14 04:21
  • Amazon embraces Docker with new customer tool

    The Docker container virtualization technology has proved to be such a hit with its users that Amazon Web Services has created a new management tool for handling large scale Docker deployments, though observers worry it could lock customers more tightly into the Amazon ecosystem.

    Written by Joab Jackson14 Nov. 14 16:59
  • Amazon launches Lambda, an event-driven compute service

    Continuing to roll out new compute services at an impressive clip, Amazon Web Services has introduced a way for programmers to trigger operations in their AWS deployments without running a full virtual machine, potentially reducing maintenance work and cost.

    Written by Joab Jackson14 Nov. 14 09:42
  • How Amazon's cloud solved the "perfect storm" in networking

    LAS VEGAS - Amazon Web Services operates at huge scale - in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant the research firm estimated AWS's capacity at five times larger than the company's next 14 competitors combined.

    Written by Brandon Butler14 Nov. 14 04:14
  • Amazon promises a mightier MySQL with Aurora release

    With Wednesday's preview release of a new database service called Aurora, Amazon Web Services claims to have supercharged the open source MySQL with the high performance, reliability, and scalability characteristics typically associated with commercial database systems--at the fraction of the cost for these products.

    Written by Joab Jackson13 Nov. 14 14:05
  • AWS Re:Invent: 'The Cloud is the new normal'

    The Cloud is no longer relegated to handling ancillary jobs, but is quickly become the base for mission critical - or even all - enterprise IT operations, the head of Amazon Web Services said.

    Written by Joab Jackson13 Nov. 14 07:38