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Amazon to boost Asia's cloud assurance
News update Cloud provider's push into Asia-Pacific is expected to provide a boost of assurance to companies of cloud computing's viability, says analyst.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, SingTel, software, Amazon.com Inc., Asia, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Storage, Web Service
Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture
News Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. For now we'll see who can deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers first.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Web services, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Web service, Jeffrey Lindsay
IBM teams up with Amazon Web Services
News Big Blue announces plans to deliver its software in the cloud via Amazon's hosted Web services.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Business applications, IBM Corp., Informix Dynamic Server, Web Service, Informix Software, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc.
Amazon's cloud gets multi-factor authentication
News Amazon Web Services customers will be able to buy small device that adds extra security to their accounts, but the code-generators are currently only available in United States.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Cloud computing, Authentication, E-mail Address, Security, Device, online banking, Password, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing
Amazon's in-cloud database gets MySQL option
News Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar.
Tags: Databases, Web services, Database, Google Inc., Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Web Service, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Server
Adobe puts LiveCycle into the cloud
News New version of Adobe's web application development tool includes developer productivity improvements, accessibility from mobile devices and integration with Flash Builder.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Web sites, Adobe LiveCycle, Adobe Systems Inc., mobile, electronic filing, Web 2.0, Web sites, LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2
Ubuntu's new Linux tries getting cloud-friendly
News Canonical's newest versions of Linux are due Thursday. Notable features: synchronization for PCs and a built-in replica of Amazon Web Services for servers.
Tags: Linux, Operating System, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, EC2, software, Amazon.com Inc., Chrome OS, Ubuntu, Web Service, Amazon Web Services
Amazon spreading its wings in the cloud
News Amazon Web Services has been offering on-demand computing and storage capacity through its Elastic Cloud Compute and Simple Storage Service. Now the company wants to make these easier for businesses to use.
Tags: Cloud computing, E-commerce, E-business, Database, Web Service, Europe, Service, Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc.
Amazon Web Services: 'Ship us your drives'
News The cloud services provider has come up with a way to deal with large amounts of data and insufficient upload bandwidth.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Data, Storage, Web Service, Broadband, Internet Connection, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing
Google App Engine permits heavy use, for a fee
News The cloud-computing foundation is growing more mature: those wanting to use it to house Web applications can pay to get more capacity.
Tags: Search, CPU, Google Inc., Web Service, Amazon Web Services, Server, Amazon.com Inc., e-mail, network, billing
IBM and Microsoft back Zend's cloud API plan
News The two firms have signed up to a Zend initiative to create an open source application-programming interface for the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, API, co-founder, Rackspace, development tool
Storage in the cloud: Availability and SLAs
Techguide Storage and the associated planning process are critical for an organization to consider any cloud technology. An expert outlines one solution that may be attractive for availability.
Tags: Cloud computing, Storage, Storage, data replication, SLA, Ohio, Amazon Web Services, Rick Vanover, Cloud computing, Rick
How Yahoo is betting its cloud will pay off
News With Yahoo counting on cloud computing to accelerate development, a behind-the-scenes IT guy like Shelton Shugar moves into the spotlight.
Tags: Cloud computing, Yahoo! Inc., Virtualization, software, Open-source Software, Apache Hadoop, Cloud computing, Server, corporate computing, Internet
Adobe takes LiveCycle tools to Amazon's cloud
News The software maker taps Amazon's EC2 and S3 service for a sandbox environment that lets enterprise developers build and test using LiveCycle without installing it.
Tags: Content management, Web servers, Open source, Adobe LiveCycle, Tool, Web service, data capture, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., Process Management
Amazon offers more cloud control
News Company's cloud-computing arm unveils the public beta for three features to help users monitor cloud resources, adjust capacity and balance traffic loads.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web Service, On-demand, Europe, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., public beta, blog, S3 Inc.
