How Amazon Stays On Top in the Cloud Wars

Apr 24, 2014

AWS is the biggest player in cloud computing, with no clear number two. How has Amazon, a company with its roots in online retailing, managed to dominate one of the major tech battlegrounds of our era?

AppDirect Raises $35 Million, IBM Acquires Silverpop

Apr 11, 2014

Cloud services brokerage company AppDirect raises $35 million to continue its rapid growth in the market, IBM adds to its enterprise marketing portfolio by acquiring Silverpop, and Amazon Web Services launches the next generation of EC2 Memory...

Amazon Cost Explorer Provides Deeper Insight Into Cloud Spending

Apr 10, 2014

Amazon Web Services introduced a new feature called Cost Explorer, which gives customers granular views into where they're spending on AWS cloud, as well as a way to optimize those costs

Amazon Unveils AWS Price Cuts, Launches Desktop WorkSpaces

Mar 26, 2014

AWS announced price cuts, It's virtual desktop offering workspaces is now available to everyone, and gives real world examples across a large swatch of industries and sizes as to how people are using their cloud.

U.S. Navy Shifting Public Data to Amazon Cloud

Mar 14, 2014

The U.S. Navy is shifting large amounts of data to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and expects the move to produce huge savings.

Syncsort, Hortonworks Help Migrate Legacy Workloads to Hadoop

Jan 30, 2014

Syncsort Hadoop product line is now certified on Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0, Amazon Redshift launches SSD-based node types, and Pure Storage boosts operations in the UK to continue hyper growth.

Is Intel Inside Your Cloud? Now You'll Know

Jan 15, 2014

Intel (INTC) is teaming with cloud service providers (CSPs) around the world to launch its Cloud Technology Program, aimed at providing cloud users with a clear view into the technology powering their cloud-based infrastructure.

Red Hat Launches Test Drives on AWS

Jan 14, 2014

At its annual Partner conference in Scottsdale, Arizona this week Red Hat (RHT) announced new Test Drives on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with three Red Hat partners – CITYTECH, Shadow-Soft, and Vizuri.

Amazon Adds Edge Locations in Taiwan, Brazil

Jan 13, 2014

Amazon expands edge locations to Taipei and Rio de Janeiro, Dell helps customers use Salesforce.com, ScaleOut Software extends its in-memory data grid, and PlanSource raises $12 million to continue to innovate its insurance exchange and benefits...

Analytics Firms Unveil Integrations for AWS CloudTrail

Nov 14, 2013

At the Amazon re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week software vendors Splunk, Sumo Logic and Alert Logic made announcements, supporting the new CloudTrail service from Amazon Web Services (AWS).