IDG News Service-Amazon Web Services has announced Glacier,a low-cost storage service that has been customized for data archiving and backup,the company said on Monday. Areas that are a good fit for Glacier include media ...
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IBM has been awarded a contract worth up to $1 billion to transform the US Department of the Interior's IT as part of a major cloud computing initiative. The DOI is aiming to move its data and applications into the cloud as part of a ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added new features to the company's management platform CloudFormation that aim to improve performance and simplify updates. As companies get more used to running applications in the cloud, they are putting ...
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Apple is on the hunt for cloud infrastructure engineers familiar with building large-scale deployments like those at Amazon Web Services and OpenStack companies, according to a job posting. The eventual hire will work to "build the next ...
Hewlett Packard and Japan's NEC will expand their existing partnership to develop high-end x86-based servers for cloud and Web applications. The companies said Thursday they will team up to accelerate research on HP's next generation of ...
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Opscode, the foundation for the coded business, announced that Bonobos, the largest apparel brand ever built on the web, has automated its entire Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with Opscode Hosted Chef. Using Hosted Chef, Bonobos ...
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Oracle and Microsoft have announced a partnership that will see Oracle's database,application server,Java programming language and other products find a home inside Microsoft's Azure cloud service.? The deal,which will also provide Oracle ...
CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management. The research organization's objective is ...
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MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. The companies have collaborated to certify for VMware's vSphere platform the ...
Rackspace is now offering hosted versions of the MongoDB data store, using MongoDB management technologies it acquired from its purchase of ObjectRocket in February. It also has contracted with 10gen, the company shepherding the open source ...
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The CIA has selected Amazon over IBM to build a cloud computing service for the spy agency even though IBM's proposal carried a lower price tag, according to a US government report. However the decision is under review after IBM lodged a ...
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Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you're using public cloud services, it's time to ...
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European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in ...
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After two years of beta testing, the Red Hat?OpenShift Online?platform as a service (PaaS) has been pressed into commercial use, charging customers and offering professional commercial support. Over a million applications?have been ...
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After three and a half years in operation, Amazon Web Services' RDS is finally generally available. Users can also get a service-level agreement if they choose to run the database in multiple places. The combination of customer adoption, ...
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