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Article | 16/12/2010 Wikileaks attacks prove the Cloud is reliable
It's a strange world. When Amazon Web Services booted Wikileaks off its servers last week, many people (including me) said it raised significant quest...
Article | 16/12/2010 Policy, education key to reining in rogue cloud
It used to be that rogue access points and USB drives kept IT administrators up at night, worrying about employees exporting sensitive corporate data....
Article | 13/12/2010 Amazon's S3 can now store files of up to 5TB
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has increased the maximum size of files that can be stored on its Simple Storage Service (S3) to 5TB from 5GB, Amazon said i...
Article | 10/12/2010 Amazon integrates Apple iPhone, iPad and Android with cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making it possible for developers to directly integrate mobile applications for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and...
Article | 3/12/2010 WikiLeaks.org downed by domain hosting service
WikiLeaks' main website could not be accessed on Friday through its WikiLeaks.org domain name after a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Services terminate...
Article | 2/12/2010 Amazon cuts off Wikileaks after U.S. senator's call
Amazon has stopped hosting the Wikileaks website, according to U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent.
Article | 25/11/2010 Netflix turns from Oracle, IBM to Amazon to save cash
Netflix moved some of its most crucial IT operations over to Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud in order to save money and gain flexibility co...
Article | 18/11/2010 Amazon goes Hollywood with new online movie studio
Amazon.com is getting into the movie business by opening Amazon Studios, with the goal of using the Internet to put fresh movies on the big screen.
Article | 15/11/2010 Amazon Web Services takes advantage of GPUs in the cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can g...
Article | 12/11/2010 Cloudstock conference set for cloud app developers
Cloudstock, a technical conference dubbed "The Woodstock for Cloud Developers," is being held next month with backing from cloud computing players inc...
Article | 10/11/2010 Amazon adds SLA to cloud-based content delivery service
Amazon Web Services has added an SLA (service level agreement) to its cloud-based content delivery service CloudFront, which now has become generally ...
Article | 29/10/2010 Cloud services spur mobile enterprise apps
Mobilizing enterprise apps is nothing new, yet beyond e-mail and a few other horizontal applications, it's still a niche market. But combining the clo...
Article | 22/10/2010 Amazon offering EC2 access at no charge
Amazon Web Services is rolling out an offer on Nov. 1 for new customers that provides one year of access to a "micro instance" on its Elastic Compute ...
Article | 30/09/2010 Even Amazon.com doesn't exclusively use the cloud
Amazon Web Services has its roots in the needs of Amazon.com, the retailer, but that doesn't mean that all of the book seller's operations run on Web ...
Article | 29/09/2010 Cloud services empower startups
Companies like Melodeo, SEOmoz and startup Spiral Genetics say they wouldn't be where they are now without access to hosted computing services.