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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.
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In his Weekly Update, David Linthicum, the Gigaom Research curator for cloud, takes a “mid-year OpenStack temperature check”. He finds the technology and the community taking hold with strong players such… Read more »
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No surprise: At TechEd 2014, Microsoft will tout Azure as the best public cloud to back-end current Windows and Office shops. Read more »
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Fear of litigation may have prevented cloud providers from adopting AWS APIs to begin with and today’s Oracle ruling may have proved them prescient. Read more »
Organizations moving to the cloud must understand that the underlying network infrastructure and related network services are prime determinants of success for both themselves and the cloud service provider. Read more »
Stackdriver has kept its eyes on customer AWS workloads for awhile. Now it’s part of Google. Read more »
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Big data has been a buzzword for years, but it’s a lot more than just buzz. There are now so many tools and technologies for creating, collecting and analyzing data that… Read more »