The weekend saw Dropbox users frustrated by issues with syncing and uploading files, as well as creating shareable links. The issues became so severe that the stability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) was called into question. According to a ...
IDG News Service - SAP's flagship Business Suite enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can now run on top of the HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and ...
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Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report from research firm Current Analysis predicts. The market has already seen some partnerships, ...
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Less than a month after a 12-hour-plus outage on Christmas Eve, Amazon Web Service's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service in its US-East availability zone experienced elevated error rates for about 45 minutes yesterday. On January 9 at ...
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Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website. "Reports of an @Netflix outage today are wrong: Streaming is fine. DVD delivery is fine," said ...
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2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry's biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed ...
Netflix has restored its streaming video services, after Christmas outages related to problems with Amazon's online computing platform. Netflix users were unable to stream movies and TV shows from some devices on Monday, with many posting ...
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IDG News Service-Is Sprint preparing a bid for prepaid wireless carrier MetroPCS?Whatever the rumors and whatever the company's plans,its chief financial officer didn't offer any clues when speaking Wednesday morning at a conference in ...
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IDG News Service - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added PowerShell to the management options for its cloud, in a move that reaches out to the Windows community. Part of Amazon's Microsoft push is to let developers and administrators manage ...
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IDG News Service-The latest version of Amazon Web Services'Linux AMI is now available,and includes the R language as well as new versions of Apache and PHP. The Linux AMI(Amazon Machine Image)is a supported Linux image offered by Amazon ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, ...
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Some 20 startups have inked commercial deals with SAP that will see them run production applications with the HANA in-memory database on Amazon Web Services, SAP announced Thursday during the Tech Ed and Sapphire conferences in Madrid. In ...
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Amazon is providing a way for one of the most popular JavaScript extensions, node.js, to easily access the Amazon Web Service collection of cloud computing capabilities. The AWS Developer Tools Team has released a preview of an SDK ...
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SAP Business Suite customers can now run the software in production form on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced this week during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. Certified modules include ERP (enterprise resource ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making a foray into the data warehousing segment with the launch of Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service. It announced the Redshift service, along with Amazon S3 price cuts, at its first ever user ...
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