IDG News Service-Users of Amazon Web Services will soon be able to orchestrate workflows across different AWS services and their own internal resources,using a new orchestration engine called the AWS Data Pipeline. Amazon Chief Technology ...
Orange Digital, the subsidiary of Orange that manages digital services for EE, had a legacy physical infrastructure that was inadequate to offer scalability at low costs. Its IT team has adopted cloud services, not just for high ...
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Rail Settlement Plan(RSP),the company that provides IT and retail services to UK rail operators,is upgrading its systems with AWS cloud to provide a next-generation ticket issuing systems as a growing number of commuters adopt the"click and ...
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Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...
Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud,and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the.Net framework. AWS isn't the only provider whose cloud can run Microsoft's new ...
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SAP customers in the UK and Ireland remain confused about the supplier's latest initiatives,including cloud migration and recent acquisitions. Research by the UK&Ireland SAP User Group,released at its annual conference held in ...
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E-commerce giant Amazon could venture into the mobile chip arena,as it looks set to acquire the mobile chip arm of semiconductor firm Texas Instruments. Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet,released in the UK this month,is powered by a processor ...
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As the US presidential election gathers pace,Silicon Valley looks on anxiously to see what effect more than 100 million American votes will make to the technology industry. Further reading US government agency drops BlackBerrys for ...
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Amazon Web Services(AWS)has added its Relational Database Service(RDS)to the free-usage tier of its service. RDS enables users to set up,operate,and scale a relational database in the cloud.With Amazon's announcement,customers will now be ...
Tags: Amazon, AWS, free database service, a pay-as-you-go model
An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
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An endless stream of tweets and blog posts have noted,described and bewailed last week's Amazon Web Services outage.Some people characterized the outage as an indictment of public cloud computing in general.Others,some of whom work at other ...
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Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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IDG News Service-Amazon Web Services has upgraded its Storage Gateway so it can cache data locally,and has also made it generally available. The Storage Gateway is a software appliance that integrates local and cloud storage and can be ...
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CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
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Amazon made a net loss in the third quarter,its first loss in nine years,even as revenue increased by 27%year on year. The$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of$63 million a year earlier.Net sales grew to$13.8 ...