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Amazon Pitches The Federal Cloud
June 18th, 2009 : Rich MillerCan cloud computing pioneer Amazon Web Services be a major player in the push to move the federal government's infrastructure into the cloud? AWS Federal is enlisting IT contractors in its effort. Read More
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Lightning Strike Triggers Amazon EC2 Outage
June 11th, 2009 : Rich MillerSome customers of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service were offline for more than four hours Wednesday night after an electrical storm damaged power equipment at one of the company's data centers. Read More
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Is AWS Elastic MapReduce A Game Changer?
April 6th, 2009 : Rich MillerRoundup: Analysis and reaction to Amazon's launch of Elastic MapReduce, a hosted Hadoop framework that offers AWS users the ability to process huge amounts of data. Read More
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Amazon: $86 Million in Servers in 2008
March 20th, 2009 : Rich MillerAmazon (AMZN) bought more than $86 million in servers from Rackable Systems (RACK) in 2008, surpassing Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) as the server maker's largest customer, Read More
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Roundup: Amazon Reserved Instances
March 16th, 2009 : Rich MillerHere's a roundup of analysis and commentary on Amazon Web Services' announcement of Reserved Instances, a new pricing model for its EC2 compute-on-demand service. Read More
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Amazon S3 Now Stores 40 Billion Objects
February 26th, 2009 : Rich MillerAmazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is now storing more than 40 billion objects, and more than 490,000 developers are using the Amazon Web Services platform. Read More
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Amazon: Coy About Containers
February 18th, 2009 : Rich MillerAmazon Web Services (AMZN) likes to talk about cloud computing, but not about its data centers, including whether the company has adopted data center containers. Read More
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IBM Apps Now Running on Amazon's EC2 Cloud
February 11th, 2009 : Rich MillerIBM (IBM) and Amazon Web Services (AMZN) have partnered to allow developers to use Amazon EC2 to build and run a range of IBM platform technologies. Read More
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IBM Apps Now Running on Amazon’s EC2 Cloud
February 11th, 2009 : Rich MillerIBM (IBM) and Amazon Web Services (AMZN) have partnered to allow developers to use Amazon EC2 to build and run a range of IBM platform technologies. Read More
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
