• News

    Startup Snowflake Launches Cloud-Based Data Warehouse Service on AWS

    Former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia has launched on AWS a cloud-based data warehouse service that it claims will significantly extend the limits of traditional analytics platforms. 06/29/2015

  • News

    Oracle Singles Out AWS in Announcing Cloud Archive Storage

    "Our new Archive Storage service goes head-to-head with Amazon Glacier and it's one-tenth their price," feisty chairman Larry Ellison said. 06/23/2015

  • News

    AWS Joins Effort To Standardize Container Technology

    Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) is teaming up with a host of software container industry players to bring some order and standardization to the increasingly popular technology. 06/22/2015

  • News

    Azure Challenges AWS in Wooing Startups

    In the ongoing market positioning moves among leading cloud computing providers, Microsoft has offered a tilt at Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) by increasing its benefits offered to startup companies who adopt the Azure platform. 06/22/2015

  • News

    Spark Support, Enterprise SQL Server Added to Amazon Cloud

    The Amazon cloud is all about data lately, having just added support for the white-hot Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics and a SQL Server Enterprise Edition machine image offering. 06/17/2015

  • News

    AWS Lambda Functions Opened Up to Java

    Amazon Web Services announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute resources. 06/16/2015

  • News

    Next-Gen Amazon EC2 Instances Launched

    Amazon Web Services Inc. has unveiled new general purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. 06/15/2015

  • News

    Free Mesosphere Datacenter OS on AWS Exclusively

    Cloud computing startup Mesosphere announced the general availability of its Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), of which a free community edition is available only on the Amazon Web Services cloud for now. 06/10/2015

  • News

    AWS Responds to Calls for Energy Use Transparency

    Company responds to debate about energy use and environmental impact following negative Greenpeace report. 06/09/2015

  • News

    Alibaba Challenges AWS in Cloud Computing

    The dominance of Amazon Web Services isn't deterring new competitors from entering the public cloud computing arena, with giant e-commerce company Alibaba Group being the latest to join the fray. 06/08/2015

  • News

    Go Language SDK Now in AWS Developer Preview

    Amazon Web Services has taken another step in the process of developing an official SDK for the Go programming language with the release of a developer preview. 06/04/2015

  • News

    Kinesis Simplifies Streaming Data Capture

    Amazon Kinesis, the Big Data streaming analytics tool on the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud, has received several updates, including a new simplified capture mechanism. 06/03/2015

  • Data Delivery

    Taking Stock of AWS and Its Cloud Competitors

    AWS may be the leader in the cloud market, but organizations should understand the overall competitive landscape and how it affects their cloud use. 06/02/2015

  • News

    HP Helion Update Supports AWS-Compatible Private Clouds

    HP today announced an update to its flagship enterprise cloud computing software will support private cloud deployments compatible with the Amazon Web Services public cloud platform. 06/02/2015

  • News

    EMC Arms Itself with Virtustream To Challenge AWS

    Recent reports that Amazon Web Services Inc. dwarfs its cloud computing rivals isn't keeping competitors such as EMC from expanding their portfolios to challenge the market leader. 06/01/2015

  • News

    AWS Now Supported by Microsoft StorSimple

    Microsoft last week updated its StorSimple storage management product to include support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack. 06/01/2015

  • News

    Report Shows Security Tools Most Popular on AWS

    Being an original premier partner of Amazon Web Services Inc. and a specialist in helping enterprises move to the cloud, 2ndWatch has a unique perspective on AWS usage trends, which it shared in a report that revealed security tools were the most popular third-party purchase. 05/29/2015

  • News

    NetApp Introduces AltaVault for Cloud Backup

    NetApp today introduced the AltaVault cloud-integrated storage solution, promising cheaper backup to the AWS cloud. 05/28/2015

  • News

    ObserveIT Seeks to Fill AWS Security Gaps

    ObserveIT has launched CloudThreat, a free tool to augment the baked-in security of the Amazon Web Services cloud IaaS platform through user activity monitoring to detect cyber attacks. 05/26/2015

  • News

    AWS Beats Azure in Gartner Magic Quadrant Market Research Report

    Gartner Inc. pointed to Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as the only "leaders" in its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) classification of cloud providers in a Magic Quadrant market research report. 05/22/2015

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