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Bank-attack malware turns power of Amazon's cloud to the dark side, again

Posted August 1, 2011 - 2:20 pm

Automation increases the power of malware and other cybercrime tools; cloud computing makes it efficient, even more powerful and more safe. Great news for hackers; bad day for IT security.
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In English this time: How Amazon let its cloud crash and why it should have known better

Posted May 2, 2011 - 2:42 pm

Amazon's cloud debacle happened because someone sent a firehose of data to a garden-hose-sized network. That's no way to run the future of corporate technology.
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Amazon's Bezos defends IT research and development

Posted April 28, 2011 - 11:48 am

He was talking to investors, not speaking for IT, but Amazon's CEO managed to lay out a good picture of the company's architecture and defend bleeding-edge IT at the same time.
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Cloud cracks home wireless router; giant hammer squishes ant

Posted January 11, 2011 - 1:19 pm

Hackers using Amazon's EC2 to crack WLANs is no threat to corporate IT, but does highlight new options for ambitious, cash-strapped crackers.
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Azure set to collide with Microsoft channel partners, again

Posted November 12, 2010 - 3:57 pm

Offering software and server platforms online inherently conflicts with companies that sell it for on-premise use; cloud and SAAS providers are proliferating so quickly, though, that Microsoft won't keep butting heads directly with partners. They'll be lucky to find each other.
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Microsoft makes Azure a lot more like a (Windows) data center

Posted October 28, 2010 - 6:47 pm

Microsoft's Azure is designed to make it easy to run .NET apps; now you can also launch VMs to run regular apps, too. That may seem like a small change; it's not.
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