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Creative Q1 net income falls
News Creative Technology, the world's largest computer sound-card maker, said its fiscal first-quarter profit fell 50 percent, beating analysts' estimates, on better-than-expected sales of audio products.
Sun steps into cloud computing fray
News Company launches its own cloud platform and services, in a move designed to challenge market leaders such as Amazon.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software engineering/development, Creative Commons, Storage, Sun Microsystems Inc., Cloud computing, Cloud Application Programming Interface Specification, Compute Service, Sun Cloud Storage, Sun Cloud Storage Service
Clearpace puts archived data in the cloud
News The software vendor introduces Rainstor, which uses Amazon's cloud tools to store customers' legacy data in the cloud.
Tags: Data centers, Services, Cloud computing, Database, Archiving, EMC Corp., Storage, Service, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc.
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, Rick Vanover, Cloud computing, Rick, failover
Cloud storage in cloud requires different mindset
Techguide One of the fundamental requirements for any IT professional deciding whether to embrace or dismiss cloud computing is to first understand it. An expert highlights big picture offerings of storage in the cloud.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Cloud computing, Storage, Web Service, provisioning, Cloud computing, Rick Vanover, Rick, Amazon.com Inc.
Do cloud computing and parallel processing lack use cases?
Techguide There are really no killer apps for cloud computing or parallel processing, and reasons why the two are not bigger trends than they should be, says industry watcher Justin James.
Tags: Business applications, Software engineering/development, Parallel Processing, Backup, CPU, Developer, Cloud Computing, Server, Use Case, multi-threading
Amazon's S3 faces outage
News Problems with online storage service causes many sites to present broken images.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Storage, Europe, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, software, online retail company, job, network
Amazon opens up SimpleDB to the public
News The database component for Amazon's cloud-computing range of services is now out of its private-beta stage, with the company offering limited free usage for the next six months.
Tags: Web sites, Personal applications, Database management, Web Page, Database, Hosted Storage, Storage, Amazon.com Inc., content delivery, API
Amazon offers automatic credit for S3 outage
News Ordinarily, customers would have to apply to get credit for an Amazon Web Services outage, but the online retailer is handling Sunday's outage automatically.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, Servers, Storage, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Storage, Cloud Computing, SLA, Amazon.com Inc.
AT&T joining cloud computing field
News AT&T is joining the burgeoning field of cloud computing service providers that offer networking and storage services.
Tags: Utility computing, Web services, Servers, Storage, Google Inc., Storage, Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage
Olympics security is no game
News U.S. companies are supplying high-tech surveillance gear to the Beijing Olympics. The concern is how it might be used after the Games.
Tags: Security, General Electric Co., Security Equipment, Honeywell International Inc., security technology, China, Beijing, U.S., Olympic Games, George W. Bush
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, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., public beta, blog, S3 Inc., Amazon Web Services
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, data capture, Amazon.com Inc., Process Management, Web service, Adobe Systems 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, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc.
Amazon launches Hadoop data-crunching service
News Customers can use MapReduce to pay by the sip as they do things like index the Web, mine data, and conduct financial analysis or bioinformatics research.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data mining & analysis, Apache Hadoop, Dana Gardner, Cloud computing, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon.com Inc., API, software, job
