ResearchCloudTracker: third quarter 2014
The latest updates from key players, mergers & acquisitions, executive transitions, and funding news across the cloud market in 3Q. Read more »
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Amazon is an electronic commerce company. It is the largest Internet based company in the United States. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics — notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico.
MoreThe latest updates from key players, mergers & acquisitions, executive transitions, and funding news across the cloud market in 3Q. Read more »
Looking for an option to the verification codes Google uses for 2-step authentication? You can now access your Google accounts on Chrome using a USB Security Key for that second step. Read more »
Microsoft is talking a lot about the scale of its cloud computing platform lately, but scale alone won’t help it steal revenue from Amazon Web Services or Google. Microsoft’s advantage is… Read more »
In an interview, Microsoft EVP Scott Guthrie says cloud is no longer a one-horse race. And the days of cloud players competing on price alone are going the way of the… Read more »
Former Amazon VP Suresh Kumar comes in as Microsoft Azure poohbah reporting to Scott Guthrie. Read more »
The Kindle Voyage is an extremely nice e-reader that probably won’t change your feelings about e-readers, no matter what those feelings may be. Read more »
IBM, the venerable IT giant, is in a tough place and it’s unclear whether divesting businesses will help it compete with cloud and software oriented companies with lower cost structures, but… Read more »
Building a global cloud is extremely expensive, so if a cloud provider wants to play in that league and hasn’t already spent billions, it should rethink, says Satya Nadella. Read more »
Google’s made it easier for developers to pay their bills on the Google Cloud Platform, the search giant said today. Coders can now use a single billing account to pay for… Read more »
Google is telling affected customers to start moving their workloads to a shiny new European zone and promises new automation tools to help in similar tasks early next year. Read more »