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Have a two-factor authentication backup plan and sleep better tonight

Posted September 10, 2013 - 6:00 am

Two-factor authentication is great security when it works. Here's what to do when it doesn't
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Service lets companies manage Amazon Web Services encryption keys

Posted September 9, 2013 - 10:54 am

KeyNexus, a division of Dark Matter Labs, today announced a secure encryption key-management service that lets organizations store, manage and audit the encryption keys they use in the cloud.
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Amazon Web Services competitors get bad news from Gartner

Posted September 4, 2013 - 4:31 pm

Gartner just published its updated Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant, and it's extremely sobering news for the cloud service provider industry.
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Amazon hiring 'top secret' IT staff as it fights for CIA work

Posted September 4, 2013 - 9:45 am

Government private cloud bid represents new approach for Amazon -- one that has put it at odds with IBM.
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How far ahead is Amazon Web Services? Let’s count the ways

Posted August 22, 2013 - 1:21 pm

A couple of reports released over the last week show that no matter how you look at it, AWS is way ahead of the pack
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Gartner: Amazon still public cloud leader by a long shot

Posted August 20, 2013 - 12:58 pm

Amazon Web Services remains the top IaaS public cloud computing provider, offering the widest breath of services of any vendor in the market, Gartner concluded in its annual Magic Quadrant report.
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AWS mobile notification service – bummer news for BaaS crowd

Posted August 13, 2013 - 2:30 pm

Amazon's new mobile notification service competes with the kind of offering many of the backend-as-a-service providers built their businesses on.
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Amazon’s CIA cloud renews questions around what is a private cloud

Posted August 8, 2013 - 3:01 pm

Would the CIA cloud be a private cloud or not?
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Google, Microsoft play catch up to Amazon, add load balancing, auto-scaling to their clouds

Posted August 7, 2013 - 1:55 pm

Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand.
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What the CIA private cloud really says about Amazon Web Services

Posted August 6, 2013 - 1:37 pm

When the CIA opted to have Amazon build its private cloud, even though IBM could do it for less money, a tech soap opera ensued. Lost amid the drama, though, is a perfectly reasonable explanation why Amazon Web Services makes sense for the CIA--and why a disruptive AWS represents the future of the cloud.
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Is Amazon really a low-margin cloud business?

Posted August 1, 2013 - 4:48 pm

A startup competitor to Amazon Web Service's cloud computing platform is accusing the company of engaging in a "fake price war" and inflating the prices of its services.
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Another week, another cloud price cut announcement

Posted July 31, 2013 - 6:00 am

It isn't only about price
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Apple looks to pick off engineers from Amazon, OpenStack to build out iCloud

Posted July 18, 2013 - 10:51 am

Apple is on the hunt for cloud infrastructure engineers familiar with building large-scale deployments like those at Amazon Web Services and OpenStack companies, according to a job posting.
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Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public-cloud weary enterprises

Posted July 10, 2013 - 9:24 pm

Amazon Web Services Wednesday dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware.
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Hey Amazon: Where's your private cloud?

Posted July 3, 2013 - 1:37 pm

The public cloud computing market is becoming increasingly competitive with new entrants focusing on hybrid offerings that combine public and private clouds. That's leaving some asking the market-leading public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, where its private cloud offering is.
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VMware brain drain: Former sales chief moves on to Amazon's cloud biz

Posted July 1, 2013 - 1:04 pm

The exodus of executives at VMware has hastened in the past few weeks, with the latest departure being one of its top sales executives jumping ship and heading to the biggest cloud computing provider in the industry.
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Public cloud cost efficiency improves, according to Newvem

Posted June 27, 2013 - 1:36 pm

There is plenty of activity in the cloud monitoring market and Newvem's annual report on AWS efficiency shows use of its tools is paying off
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Amazon Web Services: We’ll go to court to fight gov’t requests for data

Posted June 19, 2013 - 1:39 pm

AWS said it will disclose government requests for data to customers and help customers fight such requests
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Google chases Amazon, both drop cloud prices

Posted June 11, 2013 - 11:52 am

It's become a common scene in the cloud industry nowadays: Every few weeks or months a cloud vendor announces a price reduction on its services, and then within a couple of days at least one other competitor announces a price reduction as well. Today, it took just hours.
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IBM: Hey CIA, why let Amazon build you a private cloud?

Posted June 5, 2013 - 12:08 pm

Amazon pulled off a coup a few months back, reportedly securing a $600 million contract to build a cloud for the CIA.
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The cloud goes global: Amazon, Google, Rackspace, Microsoft, Savvis all expand international footprints

Posted June 3, 2013 - 12:25 pm

As competition in the cloud computing market intensifies, some of the biggest players are looking beyond their domestic borders to gain an international advantage.
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Former Amazon cloud engineer tells all on Reddit

Posted May 20, 2013 - 7:01 am

Amazon is notoriously hush-hush about its internal operations.
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Look out Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine is open for business

Posted May 15, 2013 - 6:52 pm

Now anyone can start using Google Compute Engine
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How Netflix is revolutionizing cloud computing just so you can watch 'Teen Mom' on your phone

Posted May 10, 2013 - 5:52 am

You should know what it's like to be the Big Red Movie Firm. Since you don't have time to read 3,700 words right now, I will provide some highlights.
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Amazon Web Services will continue to disrupt enterprises, IT vendors

Posted May 1, 2013 - 2:16 pm

Traditional IT vendors may deride Amazon as a mere bookseller, but Amazon Web Service is growing quickly, not to mention inexpensively. If those vendors aren't careful, AWS will soon compete against them in the enterprise cloud computing market--and if current trends hold, the competition may not even be close.
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