How Oscar nominee American Hustle used cloud to recreate disco-era NYC
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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.
MoreThe team used their own visual effects and rendering expertise atop Amazon’s brawn to do the sort special effects that succeed because you don’t know they’re there. Read more »
Enterprises must identify the common features for each IaaS building block and compare them to the services offered by key players in the industry. Read more »
The week in cloud: Where are you going to go for your OpenStack drivers? Seriously — I’m asking … Read more »
Since the rise of cloud computing, enterprises have often preferred the use of private clouds, to public clouds. This was largely due to control and security issues, or, at least… Read more »
When a cloud customer even casually mentions the possibility of moving some loads on-site, all hell can break loose, as we saw on Tuesday. Read more »
Houston startup began life offering a cloud cost assessment tool but is now broadening out to handle multi-cloud management and migration capabilities all in one suite. Read more »
According to Network World, “Amazon Web Services is a juggernaut in the infrastructure as a service market , but GoGrid, a midsize IaaS competitor that aims to be the cloud for… Read more »
According to venture legend John Doerr, Google is designing its own silicon for its data centers. But he stopped short of confirming rumors that the search giant was designing ARM-based chips… Read more »
In a not-very-surprising move, PayPal is shutting down the mobile development platform it bought in December and will focus those resources on — what else? — electronic payments. Read more »
In the age of data snooping, customers need to know that no one — not their cloud provider or cloud management company — holds the key to their data, says TwinStrata… Read more »