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AWS Message is Clear: Get Your Head Into Cloud for Agility
The attendance at last week's AWS Summit 2014 held in New York City may be an indication that the tide is finally turning. The event drew a record attendance and claimed to have more than 10,000 registrations.
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Amazon Wants In on the Enterprise Sync and Share Action Too
Just yesterday we wrote that the file storage, synching and sharing market may be as big as one trillion dollars. When Amazon found out about it, they went and built their own EFSS offering.
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Brick-and-Mortar 'Cloud Store' isn't What it Seems #AmazonEvent
It could be a coincidence, but then again, maybe not. Either way, it seems all but certain that Amazon will finally unveil its very own smartphone later today at a launch event in Seattle.
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Amazon Opens a Brick-and-Mortar Cloud Store
Retailers along San Francisco's Market Street have struggled to make a buck over the past decade, in large part because of competition from online stores like Amazon.com. So it isn't without irony that Amazon Web Services opened a brick-and-mortar pop-up store in their midst.
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These Cloud Computing Vendors are Edging Up on AWS
Sure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the golden child of cloud computing, but Microsoft Azure isn't too far behind. And according to Gartner’s recently released Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas), it's starting to nip into AWS’s market.
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Google Ups Its Cloud Game With Stackdriver Buy
In the latest twist in the ongoing battle for dominance in the cloud space, Google just announced it has bought Stackdriver, a cloud app monitoring service. According to a statement from Google, Stackdriver’s technology will be pushed onto the Google Cloud platform.
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Google, Amazon Cut Cloud Prices Again
The battle for cloud supremacy intensified again. At its Cloud Platform Live event Tuesday, Google slashed the prices for its cloud services lower than Amazon and Microsoft. Amazon responded with similar cuts. No news from Microsoft yet, but one thing is clear. The big winners are cloud users.
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Google Hits Microsoft Again By Slashing Storage Prices
As we noted yesterday, Google upped the game in the ongoing battle for dominance in the productivity suite space by offering new add-ons as well as cash to users who switch to Google Drive. Now Google is slashing the price of storage on Google Drive.
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Our 2 Cents on Forrester Wave for Big Data Hadoop Solutions
Analyst reports can be a big bore -- the Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Solutions, Q1 2014 ($2495 fee) is not.
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Accenture Report Highlights Hardware Renaissance as a Digital Disrupter
Accenture's annual Technology Vision Report, entitled "From Digitally Disrupted to Digital Disrupter," highlights the return of hardware and big names after years where software development by smaller companies have been the stars for business.
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Altiscale has the RX for Hadoop Headaches
Hadoop isn’t easy. Sure, there are vendors out there who will tell you that it is ... Just take this course or that exam. Work with us side-by-side as we “elephantize” your Enterprise, and presto you’re a pro. No, you’re not. Not yet, anyway.
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Microsoft Ups Hybrid Cloud Stakes to Grab Amazon, Google Market Share
Microsoft has upped the stakes again in the battle for cloud platform supremacy with the launch of Cloud OS Network. It brings 25 top cloud service providers under the same banner to deliver hosted services on the Microsoft Cloud Platform. Microsoft Cloud OS Network The Microsoft cloud platform includes Windows
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Google Targets Amazon, IBM, Microsoft with Broader Cloud Platform
After more than a year in preview, Google has finally made its Google Compute Engine (GCE) Generally Available (GA). The GA release also comes with a 10 percent price cut for standard instances and a guaranteed uptime of 99.95 percent. The announcement, which appears in a blog post by Ari Balogh,
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10 Ways Amazon AWS Makes Building Enterprise Solutions Sexy
Stories are legion of IT projects gone wrong. According to Standish Chaos Reports, a majority of projects fail, fail to deliver as promised, run way over budget, deliver something that isn't wanted or doesn't get used, or are outright abandoned and never finished.
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