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Article | 7/07/2011 Amazon courts iPad users with cloud service updates
Amazon has updated its Cloud Player service to work with the iPad, hoping to reel in users of the Apple device before Apple launches its competing iCl...
Article | 1/07/2011 Amazon eliminates inbound data fees for AWS
Amazon announced late on Wednesday that it is eliminating the cost for all inbound data transfer to Amazon Web Services, matching Microsoft's recent a...
Article | 1/07/2011 Dassault enters cloud era with caution, works with Amazon
Dassault Systèmes has decided to make its products for computer-aided design and manufacturing, product lifecycle management and simulation available ...
Article | 21/06/2011 Researchers: AWS users are leaving security holes
Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's cloud-computing services due to its customers either ignoring or forgetti...
Article | 21/06/2011 IDC: High-performance computing poses challenges for SMBs
Cloud computing could help boost the use of high-performance computing (HPC) among small and medium-size businesses, but there are hurdles that have t...
Article | 26/05/2011 Capgemini to support SAP apps on Amazon's cloud
Consultancy Capgemini's North American business will offer support to enterprises that want to run SAP applications in Amazon Web Services' cloud, the...
Article | 25/05/2011 Oracle's database now available on Amazon Web Services
Oracle's database is now available for deployment on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Tuesday, but with some key limitations.
Article | 18/05/2011 SAP certifies software to run on Amazon
Users of SAP's BusinessObjects and Rapid Deployment products are now able to run the applications from Amazon's cloud, marking the first time SAP has ...
Article | 5/05/2011 Amazon adds identity management to Web console
The Amazon Web Services Management Console can now handle Identity and Access Management (IAM) features offered in its cloud, the company said on Tues...
Article | 30/04/2011 Amazon comes clean about the great Cloud outage
Amazon has posted an essay-length explanation of the cloud outage that took offline some of the Web's most popular services last week. In summary, it ...
Article | 29/04/2011 Make sure your Cloud provider communicates
Last week's outage of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute, and specifically the company's lack of communications around that outage, point out the importan...
Article | 27/04/2011 What happens to data when cloud providers evaporate?
Over the past year, four cloud storage service providers have said they're shutting down and Amazon's cloud services have been problematic since Thurs...
Article | 27/04/2011 What your business can learn from Amazon Cloud outage
The servers are back up and users can once again check in on Foursquare and ask questions on Quora, but the legacy of last week's Amazon Elastic Cloud...
Article | 23/04/2011 Thanks, Amazon: The Cloud crash reveals your importance
The outage of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service has shone a light on the number of Websites that use the service, which allows companies to...
Article | 11/04/2011 What the cloud really costs: Do you know?
For CIOs who distrust most technological promises (having heard too many of them), cloud computing sets off alarm bells. Yet those CIOs finding succes...