Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
On Wednesday night, AWS tolds its customers about a planned EC2 reboot due to what came to be known as a Xen issue; a full two days later, Rackspace does the… Read more »
IBM SoftLayer’s hybrid bare-metal/cloud infrastructure and free internal networking wins some converts, but it still has a long way to go in the AWS-obsessed world of startups. Read more »
Jason Hoffman, the former Joyent CTO who’s now spearheading Ericsson’s cloud computing show talks about what he and Apcera are up to. In addition, the Oracle succession saga, Talko talks, and… Read more »
Ericsson revealed it’s handling T-Mobile’s new LTE network expansion into new spectrum, into rural areas and into the nooks and crannies of dense urban areas. Read more »
Verizon is now offering what it calls a Secure Cloud Interconnect service between Verizon Cloud and Amazon Web Services. You can probably guess why. Read more »
Ray Ozzie is back to his old tricks — this time parlaying smart phones and cloud as opposed to PCs and servers — to foster communication including high-quality calls (!) between… Read more »