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  • Canonical bundles Linux, IBM database for the cloud

    Canonical is offering enterprises a chance to try cloud computing via a virtual appliance that bundles Ubuntu Linux with the IBM DB2 Express-C database running on the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) public cloud platform.

    Written by Paul Krill21 July 10 20:07
  • RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in

    Rackspace's contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary players like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), according to some observers.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus20 July 10 04:02
  • Amazon introduces cluster computing for HPC apps

    Amazon Web Services says its latest cluster computing service, which it announced Tuesday, can provide the same results as custom-built infrastructures for high-performance applications at organizations that don't want to build their own.

    Written by Jeremy Kirk14 July 10 04:08
  • Eucalyptus expanded for Windows use

    Eucalyptus Systems has released an update to the commercial version of its private cloud software, Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition.

    Written by Joab Jackson17 June 10 05:03
  • Amazon encrypts CloudFront, but security comes at a price

    Amazon Web Services' content delivery network service CloudFront can now transfer data over an encrypted HTTPS connection, but users will pay more than if they transfer it via HTTP, Amazon said on Monday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs09 June 10 04:51
  • Amazon improves reliability for its cloud-based database

    Amazon Web Services has added a new high-availability feature called Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) to its cloud-based Relational Database Service (RDS), the company said on Tuesday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs19 May 10 05:11
  • Amazon's virtual private cloud service comes to Europe

    Amazon Web Services has launched VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) in Europe, the company said on Tuesday. The service lets companies connect their existing data centers to isolated computing resources in Amazon's European cloud using an encrypted VPN (virtual private network) connection.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs05 May 10 06:32
  • Red Hat support subscription to cover Amazon's cloud

    Red Hat Cloud Access will let enterprises use their subscriptions to support either traditional on-premise servers or servers hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, the company said on Tuesday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs28 April 10 05:51
  • NetSuite hooks up with Amazon's storage cloud

    NetSuite has integrated its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3), the company announced Wednesday in conjunction with its annual partner and developer conference in San Francisco.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus15 April 10 05:01
  • Lawson puts its ERP on Amazon's cloud

    Lawson Software announced a partnership on Wednesday that will make its ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other applications available on Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure service.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus01 April 10 07:29
  • Amazon adds private streaming to CloudFront

    Amazon Web Services has added the ability for customers of CloudFront to choose who gets to receive content streamed using the service, the company said on Sunday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs30 March 10 07:34
  • Software AG opens BPM social networking beta test

    Software AG opened a beta version of its social network for business process management (BPM) on Tuesday, a year after it first announced the service.

    Written by Peter Sayer03 March 10 07:20
  • Amazon Web Services CTO out to prove enterprise chops

    There is still a misconception that Amazon Web Services exists to sell the company's excess server capacity, but that is not the case, CTO Werner Vogels said during a keynote at Cebit.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs03 March 10 06:34
  • Hackers find a home in Amazon's EC2 cloud

    Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure.

    Written by Robert McMillan11 Dec. 09 06:26
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