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- October 29, 2014
29 Oct'14
AWS partner dishes on enterprise cloud migrations
2nd Watch manages enterprise workloads in AWS. Learn about trends and wish list items in this Q&A with the firm's new CEO.
- October 29, 2014
29 Oct'14
Choosing small biz clouds: Criteria and vendors
Most small businesses can leverage cloud-based solutions easily, because they haven’t invested heavily in legacy infrastructure, as larger organizations have. That segment is highly desirable for ...
- October 28, 2014
28 Oct'14
Choosing an AWS storage option
Storage is an essential component of the cloud world. You could say that storage IS the cloud. The decision of which storage option you choose will affect the scalability, reliability, ...
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- October 23, 2014
23 Oct'14
AWS Europe offers better DR choices with German region
Amazon Web Services launched two availability zones in Frankfurt, Germany, offering regulatory refuge and more options for disaster recovery.
- October 20, 2014
20 Oct'14
Finding the right cloud computing partner
It's clear that cloud computing is no longer a do-it-yourself venture, especially in the enterprise. A lot of companies can roll their own applications on Amazon Web Services for one-off projects, ...
- October 16, 2014
16 Oct'14
Google undercuts AWS in low-end IaaS pricing
Google and Amazon are fully engaged in a price war, but calculating IaaS costs takes into account several factors, from reserved instance usage to free-tier discounts.
- October 16, 2014
16 Oct'14
AWS and Google stage showdown in big data cloud services
Big data in the cloud is more than just MapReduce. In a growing market for big data, capturing the next big innovation is key.
- October 16, 2014
16 Oct'14
AWS cloud security and compliance win enterprise trust
Both AWS and Google offer encryption, but the story doesn't end there. The two cloud giants differ on key management and compliance certifications.
- October 15, 2014
15 Oct'14
Google PaaS has a leg up on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Google was an early mover in the platform as a service market, which makes it 'sticky' with early adopters, but will it beat out Elastic Beanstalk long-term?
- October 08, 2014
08 Oct'14
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- October 02, 2014
02 Oct'14
DoD hesitant on cloud despite AWS security certifications
AWS was recently awarded provisional authority to host highly sensitive workloads for the Department of Defense, but the agency hasn't fully embraced public cloud yet.
- September 30, 2014
30 Sep'14
Engineering firm spruces up AWS storage with caching appliance
Graef-USA combined AWS storage with a Panzura appliance to slash thousands of dollars from its budget and also streamline backups.
- September 29, 2014
29 Sep'14
AWS billing prompts use of third-party cloud cost analysis tools
Does AWS billing give you a headache? Some customers have turned to third-party software to make sense of cloud costs.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
AWS reboot leaves customers scrambling
Amazon Web Services will soon patch huge swaths of its EC2 fleet to protect against a security vulnerability, and customers won’t be able to re-launch instances to avoid it.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Firm forgoes LDAP and Active Directory for cloud directory
For one software developer, the choice of an AWS cloud was easier than learning how to secure the infrastructure with a user directory.