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Amazon Web Services lowers price of storage in its cloud

Posted February 7, 2012 - 6:19 am

Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said on Monday.
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Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud

Posted January 27, 2012 - 2:38 pm

Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure.
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Amazon's cloud is full of holes

Posted June 20, 2011 - 1:59 pm

Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's cloud-computing services due to its customers either ignoring or forgetting published security tips.
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Cloud storage a steep climb

Posted March 21, 2011 - 9:35 am

It's been nearly five years to the day since Amazon introduced its groundbreaking Simple Storage Service -- or S3, as it's more commonly known. But despite that offering's track record, many enterprise IT executives still struggle with the notion of using cloud-based storage services to hold their corporate data.
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Making the cloud more enterprise-friendly

Posted November 8, 2009 - 8:38 am

Here are ways to make cloud computing enterprise friendly.
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Amazon S3 lets customers ship big data

Posted May 22, 2009 - 9:53 am

Amazon's S3 cloud storage service has a new option, called AWS Import/Export, for quickly uploading large amounts of information to its data centers.
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Open Source + Amazon Storage = Less Backup Cost

Posted February 17, 2009 - 1:32 pm

Let's be honest: half of the companies reading this today are NOT backing up their data properly. That's the optimistic figure, because some backup industry analysts say about two-thirds of companies have backup issues that cause them grief. But there's hope for the unprepared half or two-thirds of you out there.
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Adobe LiveCycle takes to the cloud

Posted January 12, 2009 - 1:19 pm

Adobe is making its LiveCycle PDF apps package available via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
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Amazon offers pay-per-use service for data hosted on S3

Posted January 5, 2009 - 9:43 am

Amazon has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data holders charge another entity for the cost of accessing their information.
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Wall Street Beat: Vendors brace for the worst

Posted October 23, 2008 - 7:51 pm

Despite strong third-quarter performances from some vendors, cautious forecasts from companies as diverse as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, EMC, Texas Instruments and Yahoo focused attention on what are bound to be rough waters over the next few months.
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Wall Street Beat: Vendors brace for the worst

Posted October 23, 2008 - 7:50 pm

Despite strong third-quarter performances from some vendors, cautious forecasts from companies as diverse as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, EMC, Texas Instruments and Yahoo focused attention on what are bound to be rough waters over the next few months.
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Amazon to offer volume discounts for S3

Posted October 9, 2008 - 3:04 pm

Amazon's AWS cloud computing subsidiary will institute a new tiered pricing structure for its hosted storage service that includes price cuts for high-volume customers.
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Get your head around SaaS

Posted August 26, 2008 - 12:28 pm

You may avoid putting your data into Amazon.com Inc.'s S3 cloud-based storage repository. You may eschew its EC2 on-demand compute services. But if your supply chain partners or IT services suppliers utterly depend on SaaS for their operations, you do, too.
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Amazon S3 systems failure downs Web 2.0 sites

Posted July 21, 2008 - 10:26 am

A systems failure at Amazon's S3 hosted storage service this morning has affected a host of Web 2.0 applications such as Twitter and SumgMug, which are dependent on it for the delivery of their applications.
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