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How Alibaba's Business Model Transcends Amazon, Facebook, Google
Also spurring the update is the view that Alibaba’s cloud computing platform is poised for strong growth in the years ahead, similar to that of Amazon …
Amazon Simple Storage Service spurs on-premises storage
As it closes in on becoming a $ 10 billion run rate per year enterprise IT juggernaut, the cloud computing platform has changed the IT landscape …
Google Cloud Chief Diane Greene: Here’s How We’ll Catch Amazon And Microsoft
Diane Greene is in the hot seat. The onetime cofounder of VMware, a pioneer in what’s now known as cloud computing, heads Google’s enterprise …
Why Would Amazon Be Interested In A Stake In Mapping Company HERE?
Apart from gaining a big client for its cloud computing business, we believe the mapping technology could be part of Amazon’s ambitious plans for …
Why Amazon and OpenStack Continue to Thrive in a Complex Cloud World
NEWS ANALYSIS: Cloud milestones—Amazon announcing AWS hitting a $ 10B annual run rate and OpenStack’s 13th release—lead some to wonder …
Amazon creates cloud and retail CEO positions
… to Amazon, the official appointment comes as the conglomerate’s retail and cloud computing businesses have both experienced exponential growth.
Amazon wants to buy a stake in HERE maps
Amazon wants to provide cloud computing services for HERE maps and by buying a stake in the company it may be able to secure a position doing so …
Make the Most of Free Amazon Web Services
The best way to think of the free tier to Amazon Web Services is as a stepping-stone. It allows you to get your feet wet with the basic mechanisms of AWS and EC2; to understand Amazon’s handling of virtual machine instances, storage, data, and networking; and to create an item that can eventually be hosted on a full-blown, for-pay AWS instance. It also lets you learn how to manage and constrain AWS usage. If you’re not careful, you may end up paying for your “free” AWS usage after all.
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Dropbox quits Amazon cloud, takes back 500 PB of data
Dropbox moves 90% of its data off Amazon AWS, in favor of its own private cloud. Dropbox built its own, custom storage servers, to store half an exabyte or more, mirrored across three regions.
Sometimes, you get so big that public cloud pricing doesn’t make sense any longer. But building those servers from scratch and moving all that data sound like an enormous undertaking.
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