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- Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service
- Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying to conduct data intensive number crunching statement. Hadoop, which is used by...
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Amazon.com Inc., MapReduce Programming Model, Cloud Computing, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- HP introduces new ex485 and ex487 MediaSmart Servers with Time Machine support
- Instead of waiting for the information to inevitably leak, HP has jumped the gun on CES and announced two new additions to its MediaSmart Server line of network attached storage NAS devices. The ex485 and ex487 will both be available in February, and one of their major enhancements is Mac...
- Tags: NAS, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Media, Server, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Backups, Storage, Hardware, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom
- Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., CloudFront, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who’s buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Amazon cuts S3 pricing; Dangles carrot in front of enterprises
- Amazon said Thursday that it will cut prices on its Simple Storage Service (S3) and offer more volume discounts. The pricing, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, may reflect that Amazon is looking to grab share as competition from Microsoft and others is about to heat...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Will Egnyte set you alight?
- When I first heard about Egnyte I was underwhelmed. How many more file storage systems do we need? That was a gross under estimation of what Egnyte can deliver for the smaller business. Described by Vineet Jain, the company's CEO as 'information infrastructure', the company sees storage as one of...
- Tags: Service, Egnyte, Jain, Storage, Hardware, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- How PaaS pulls software pricing down
- Platform-as-a-service startup Bungee Labs this week released a new utility pricing model that really starts to put the spotlight on the pricing charged by established software-as-a-service providers. Bungee also announced what it calls 'federated hosting', which gives customers the choice of where to host their Bungee-developed applications; with Bungee in...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Application, PaaS, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Amazon steps up Web services support
- Amazon Web Services AWS is growing up quickly. The company rolled out premium support services, which will be a welcome sign as more enterprises dabble with Amazon's cloud. AWS rolled out premium support services for Amazon EC2, S3 and SQS with two tiers gold and silver. ...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services, It Services, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- How to really make money with Web 2.0
- One of the most significant announcements made around the turn of the year attracted very little attention at the time, despite its huge import for the way on-demand applications get created and marketed. I'm talking about Amazon DevPay. Silicon Valley's online chatterati didn't give it much of a second glance,...
- Tags: Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Google AdSense, Amazon DevPay, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Salesforce.com ascends to the cloud
- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff opened his "Tour de Force" presentation in San Francisco touting the prowess of the Force.com platform and his company--1 million subscribers, on track for more than $1 billion in its fiscal year (starting Feb. 1), 24 billion API calls to date, 130 million transactions daily, 210...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Platform, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Amazon rolls out beta of its cloud database
- Amazon has announced the limited beta of its SimpleDB, a database Web service designed to ride shotgun with Amazon's S3 storage service and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon's Simple DB provides real-time lookup and querying of structured data, which will presumably be stored on the S3 service. According to...
- Tags: Database, Amazon.com Inc., Beta, Pricing Strategy, Storage, Web Services, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 service
- Coupa will launch an on-demand e-procurement software suite on Monday that is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Web service. For those keeping score at home that makes the Coupa suite an on-demand service running on an on-demand service. The launch also makes Coupa one of Amazon's early corporate...
- Tags: Software, SLA, Software-as-a-service, E-procurement, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Service, Coupa, Enterprise Class Uptime, Purchasing & Procurement, Service Level Management, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Amazon's EC2 opens up and scales out
- Amazon Web Services, the utility computing company, formally opened its Elastic Compute Cloud beta to all developers and added new instance types, including an "Extra Large with 15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units and 1690 GB of instance storage. Instances $0.10 - Small...
- Tags: Memory, Amazon.com Inc., Instance Storage, 64-Bit, Web Services, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- With a 'wholesale' model, Nirvanix's API-based storage service to take on Amazon's S3
- Although it's not priced as favorably as Amazon's API-based Simple Storage Service (S3), Nirvanix must think its equally API-driven storage offering is sufficiently differentiated from what Amazon has to offer that it's worth the slight premium you'll have to pay. Compared to S3 which charges 15 cents per gigabyte...
- Tags: S3 Inc., API, Amazon.com Inc., Nirvanix, Storage, Hardware, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Google's new storage service
- It is about frikkin' time!18 months ago the storage world was abuzz with the hints of Google's Gdrive, a rumored free(?) online storage service that was going to change everything. Microsoft was working feverishly on a counter-product "LiveDrive". Only it never happened. Finally, Google has made its move!And what a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Storage, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Is Microsoft's Cloud OS actually a Cloud DB?
- Is Microsoft's Cloud OS actually a Cloud DB?windows 2010 - Windows as a utilityThat's Cloud storage, If I look at Amazon, they have first release storage cloud first (S3), computing came latter (EC2). I hope MS follows the same. Live platform & services, all together would live in the Cloud‘Cloud...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, CloudDB, MS JUST, Cloud OS, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- Build a cheap, overclockable PC
- Ive had a number of enquires from readers who want to build or buy a cheap yet powerful PC. Can it be done? You bet! What components will you need to buy? Read on!One of the cheapest and best ways to get your hands on a...
- Tags: Intel, DIY PC, Components, Performance, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Seeding the next generation of startups
- With hundreds of startups looking to become the next big thing, all parts of the ecosystem are trying to figure out how to have skin in the game and lower the cost of capital and services for entrepreneurs. For example, Charles River Ventures launched a QuickStart seed funding program and...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- With Grid Server and "GPUs", is MediaTemple a managed version of Amazon's EC2?
- Back in April 2004, I wrote about HPs vision for utility computing and how the company was looking to make compute resources available and billable on an on-demand basis. One of the questions I had for HP at the time is what the billable unit of measure might be when...
- Tags: Grid Server, EC2
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
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