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Call them Spot Instances, Preemptible VMs or whatever, but short-lived, non-mission-critical, temporary cloud compute jobs are emerging as a second front in the cloud compute wars.
05/21/2015
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Amazon Web Services added support for Windows Server 2012 R2 to its OpsWorks application management service.
05/20/2015
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On using Amazon S3 to wrangle complex and constantly changing datasets.
05/19/2015
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With cloud computing overtaking on-premises datacenters, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service arena dominated by Amazon Web Services is in a state of upheaval, according to research firm Gartner, as major industry players shake themselves out.
05/19/2015
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With today's news of Google Cloud Platform price cuts, users of the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud are likely anticipating a response from their service, based on the past history of cloud vendors' tit-for-tat matching of pricing moves.
05/18/2015
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Microsoft Azure Blob Storage edged out Amazon Simple Storage Service in performance testing conducted by enterprise cloud storage company Nasuni Corp.
05/15/2015
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Amazon Web Services today officially launched AWS Educate, a free service for educators and students designed to prepare IT pros, developers and business staffers to enter the cloud workforce.
05/14/2015
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Ravello Systems launched Smart Labs for the Amazon and Google clouds for testing networking and security implementations.
05/13/2015
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Though its rapid application development platform is based on Google App Engine, AppScale Systems Inc. today announced a tool to help users deploy apps on the competing Amazon Web Services Inc cloud.
05/12/2015
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Microsoft continued its assault on cloud market leader Amazon Web Services with the introduction of a tool to manage resources in clouds of any type, including AWS.
05/11/2015
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NetSuite is moving its ERP software from Amazon Web Services to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
05/07/2015
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Just like with your credit card issuer, there can be "hidden" fees with AWS that you don't know about until you get the bill.
05/05/2015
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Ruxit, an application performance management company, announced it has added the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud to its list of supported technologies.
05/05/2015
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Mesosphere is putting its Datacenter Operating System on the cloud as a public beta project.
05/04/2015
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Amazon isn't providing details, but the company confirmed it has acquired ClusterK Inc., which specializes in helping enterprises save money by bidding on unused compute instances, called Spot Instances.
05/01/2015
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Microsoft made no bones about who it was targeting with its new Azure SQL Data Warehouse during yesterday's opening keynote address at its Build developer conference.
04/30/2015
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In the wake of Amazon.com's earnings report last week, in which the company broke out earnings for Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the first time, analysts are debating whether the retail giant should spin off its cloud business.
04/29/2015
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SAS Institute Inc. is putting its SAS University Edition statistical software on the AWS marketplace for educational and non-commercial use.
04/29/2015
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Well, Infrastructure as a Service works, and Amazon Web Services Inc.'s recent quarterly financial results report shows the cloud company is doing pretty well with it, at least temporarily silencing doubters as it continues to hold off stiff competition from some of the most powerful companies in the world. So now what?
04/28/2015
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Version 3.8 of Stash, the Git-based distributed version control system (DVCS) from collaboration and development toolmaker Atlassian, now supports deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc.
04/27/2015