Better late than never? Oracle adds OpenStack support to Solaris
The week in cloud: Oracle furthers its OpenStack committment in its new Solaris 11.2 release and Red Hat surprises ecosystem with Inktank/Ceph buy. Read more »
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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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Publishing analytics startup Parse.ly just switched its entire IT footprint to Amazon Web Services, saving money and improving performance in the process. As clouds keep getting cheaper and better, resistance to… Read more »