Big data vendor Cloudera is no Google when it comes to data center footprint, but the cost and complexity of its infrastructure are growing with each passing year. Cloudera VP of… Read more »
Google has kicked off a cloud price-cutting war with Amazon Web Services, which is a turn of events that doesn’t seem to bode well for small cloud providers that will have… Read more »
Amazon Web Services doesn’t have enough capacity to handle demand for its new C3 instances, which has led to a rush order of new servers. In almost any other scenario, that… Read more »
Parse.ly Co-founder and CTO Andrew Montalenti shares his views on how startups can best keep their costs down and options open by using cloud computing wisely. But it’s a fast-moving market,… Read more »
Google probably does need to become feature-competitive with AWS sooner rather than later, but that doesn’t mean it necessarily needs to match AWS tit for tat. Maybe being Google will actually… Read more »
Netflix is now running its streaming service live across two regions of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, an architectural decision that should avoid a nasty service disruption like the one… Read more »
Anyone wondering how Amazon Web Services is able to roll out so many new features to its cloud platform each year might just want to read the new biography on Amazon… Read more »
Amazon Web Services VP and Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton explained during a session at the AWS re:Invent conference how the cloud provider keeps costs as low as possible and innovation as… Read more »
Rackspace revenue continued to rise during the third quarter, but growth was slow and profits were down year over year. The company chalks up the latter to increased forward-looking investments, but… Read more »
At the AWS Re: Invent conference, engineers from Pinterest, Flipboard and Yelp detailed some of the strategies their companies employ in order to keep costs low as computing demand increases. The… Read more »