AWS
A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of AWS
The idea behind cloud computing, as pioneer Amazon Web Services believed when it launched its first utility compute and storage products eight years ago, is to abstract away the ...Full Article
Enterprises Gravitate To Amazon’s Cloud
If there is a consistent message coming out of Amazon Web Services from its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, it is that enterprise adoption of Amazon’s public ...Full Article
Private Clone S3 Object Storage On A Massive Scale
In the hyperscale world, snippets of data pile up like mountains and a traditional file system that allows data to be updated is not only inappropriate, but too slow ...Full Article
Network Filers Take To The Clouds
Most disk storage arrays are based on commodity hardware these days. Generally speaking, they use Xeon processors from Intel as their controller brains, they use normal main memory as ...Full Article
Microsoft Fattens Up Azure Compute To Compete
Microsoft's entry this week into the converged cloud infrastructure market was accompanied by the roll out of a new series of virtual machines for the Azure cloud. In laying ...Full Article
Database Hotshots Build Warehouse From Scratch For The Cloud
It may seem that the last thing the world needs is another database or data store, but a new stealthy startup founded by a team of database and analytics ...Full Article
AWS DynamoDB Adds JSON Support, Flex Scaling
Amazon Web Services is expanding its DynamoDB database service with document support along with flexible scaling of larger items. It is also expanding the amount of database capacity available ...Full Article
Verizon Cloud Interconnect Adds AWS
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions unit is expanding connections to its private IP cloud interconnect service to include Amazon Web Services. Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service currently works with Microsoft ...Full Article
Red Hat Upgrades Satellite Management, Hints at Container Tools
Red Hat continues to expand its cloud management toolkit with the release of its Satellite 6 suite as the open-source specialist sharpens its focus on areas like subscription management ...Full Article
DOD Certifies AWS Cloud for ‘Sensitive’ Data
Amazon Web Services got the green light this week from the federal government to begin rolling out cloud services designed to handle "sensitive" workloads. AWS has announced that the ...Full Article