Amazon.com made a net loss in the third quarter, its first loss in nine years, even as revenue increased by 27 percent year on year. The US$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of $63 million a year earlier. Net sales ...
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Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise data warehouse deployments. “Anyone who has ...
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IT leaders will need to “get real” and stop saying that everything is moving into the cloud during 2013, according to analyst firm Forrester. In a blog entry which counts down the company’s top 10 cloud predictions for ...
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Eyeing greater use of the open source Postgres database in the cloud,hosting provider Open Hosting has launched a service that allows users to run an automated cluster of PostGres databases on the company's own servers. The company has ...
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SAP has certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its business intelligence (BI) applications on the AWS cloud, enabling enterprises to gain more agility and infrastructure cost savings, as well as to standardise their use of public cloud. ...
Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track their usage of AWS public cloud resources. Detailed billing features include ...
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A free service that allows enterprises to track the utilisation rate and costs of public cloud services including Amazon Web Services(AWS),Windows Azure and Rackspace,has been launched by IT management service provider Apptio. The ...
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IDG News Service-Companies worried about their bills for cloud services have a new--and free--option:Apptio's Cloud Express,which can track usage and costs for cloud services from Amazon Web Services,Microsoft and Rackspace. IT ...
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UAE-A Solid State Logic AWS 948 Hybrid Console/Controller was chosen to upgrade the primary audio recording room,Studio 7,now named the SSL Studio,at the SAE Institute in Dubai. As a part of the worldwide network of over 56 SAE ...
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The process of metal rolling is technically defined as a metalworking technique of plastically deforming metal by passing it between a pair of rolls.'This method helps in changing the cross section of a piece of metal.This method is one of ...
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Xylem has launched a new pump selection mobile phone app for contractors and specifiers within the residential and commercial water markets. Based on the company'popular desktop software,'Xylect'is now available to download free of charge ...
Network World-During Hurricane Sandy this fall,The Weather Channel experienced its highest traffic ever.Normally the media company--which spans television,desktop and mobile platforms--supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a ...
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Cloud-based intelligence databases Customised risk tolerance Signature approach combined with local behavioral analysis Protecting systems offline File-scanning misses the big picture Read more about cloud and security Security continues ...
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Microsoft is set to slash Windows Azure Storage prices by 28% from 12 December 2012. The news comes just days after Google cut its cloud-based storage prices by 20% and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a 25% price reduction for Amazon ...
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Enterprise users of public cloud welcomed Amazon Web Services' new products and price reductions,but said that additional features such as better security,ease of use and added multiple-availability to overcome outages issues could make ...
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