Amazon offers developers 70% as Apple’s iSlate looms in the air
By Tarry Singh at 25 January, 2010, 3:29 am
The Kindle is gaining traction in the classroom. Education publisher School Specialty (SCHS) plans to sell interactive content on the device. Rick Holden, who runs the unit of Greenville (Wis.)-based School Specialty that focuses on children with learning disabilities, says he has been in discussion with Amazon about bringing K-12 content to the Kindle for [...]
Read More >>Enterprise Cloud Apps: CapGemini’s play with Amazon AWS may attract the enterprise
By Tarry Singh at 6 January, 2010, 12:42 am
Three ways to engage the cloud Capgemini’s three-pronged approach makes a lot of sense. AWS is really designed for limited enterprise workloads that are unconventional and not core to enterprise IT, says Gillettt. Thus, test-and-development scenarios, where you set it up and tear it down quickly, are ideal for the cloud. Oracle ERP in the [...]
Read More >>Amazon’s Cloud to rain on Asian enterprises by Q1 2010
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:18 pm
Amazon, Google and Apple obviously are poised to be on our upcoming market report slated to be published on 4th Jan, 2010. The greatest thing these all companies have is speed. They can get to any part of the world , including their customers, at a much faster pace than anyone else. It is this [...]
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Amazon’s attack on Oracle, IBM: Adds el-cheapo Relational Database to its Cloud!
By Tarry Singh at 27 October, 2009, 4:39 am
Well I guess after Oracle’s MySQL stake it wil only help Oracle make more money there so it’s IBM that is under solid attack unless ofcourse IBM buys postgres or something else and does the same with it. Amazon RDS is designed for developers or businesses who require the full features and capabilities of a [...]
Read More >>Amazon Introduces Virtual Private Cloud and legitimizes Private Clouds
By yarapavan at 26 August, 2009, 8:02 am
Amazon introduces Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and with that stroke, completely legitimizes private clouds. The Amazon Link for the same: http://aws.amazon.com/vpc AWS blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/08/introducing-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc.html In a blog post, the Amazon CTO Werner Vogels rationalizes this imperative decision by pointing out the essential properties of a cloud: Eliminates Cost. The cloud changes capital expense to variable expense and lowers operating costs. [...]
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Online Privacy? There is no privacy, get over with it!: Amazon peddles with Kindles with remote delete on all devices
By Tarry Singh at 19 July, 2009, 5:46 am
Scott McNealy said long ago during Sun’s glory days back in 99: “Get over it!”. In an online world, this is true and most of us (subconsciously) know it. We all know and (somehow) fear God or anything that exists up there depending on your beliefs, but with online everything is being stored in large [...]
Read More >>Data Center buildout continues – Amazon is building another one in Oregon
By Tarry Singh at 24 June, 2009, 2:14 am
Amazon buys a large volume of servers to support its cloud computing operations. It was the top customer for Rackable Systems/SGI in 2008, buying more than $86 million of the company’s cloud-optimized servers and storage. Amazon is known to already operate a major East Coast data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The company has disclosed that [...]
Read More >>How Google and Amazon’s Clouds will kill Data Centers worldwide
By Tarry Singh at 22 June, 2009, 10:39 am
The Elephant in the Room: Google Google has been using the cloud as one of its strategies to poach in areas that Microsoft has traditionally owned. Gmail and Google Apps are quietly pecking away at Microsoft Office, and no one seems to mind – or even notice – that these are cloud-based applications. Of course, [...]
Read More >>VMlogix: Hypervisor agnostic Lab Manager firm readies itself for the Cloud with Amazon
By Tarry Singh at 21 June, 2009, 10:13 pm
PALO ALTO, Calif. – June 22, 2009 – VMLogix, Inc., a provider of virtual machine management solutions designed for software companies and IT organizations, today announced the beta release of VMLogix LabManager™ – Cloud Edition, a new product that enables software teams to run virtual labs within cloud computing environments. The only offering on the [...]
Read More >>Is Amazon AWS APIs for EC2, S3 etc poised to go Open Source? I don’t think so.
By Tarry Singh at 30 May, 2009, 4:44 am
I am not sure if that will help Amazon get its feet inside the enterprise customers. Enterprises have heard of those open source start-ups but won’t do any business with them unless there is some sense of security and trusted advisory role of the vendor. Although it’s only a rumor, Reuven Cohen reports hearing from [...]
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