Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding in Japan through the opening of a new availability zone. The move means that AWS will most likely be adding more data centers to keep up with the steady demand it has had since it first began offering its service in Tokyo 18 months ago. AWS breaks its regions […]
Posted on September 14th, 2012 by admin
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Inktank has raised $1 million in the form of a convertible note from Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth to further services play for Ceph — an open source, next-generation, distributed storage technology. Inktank is led by DreamHost Co-Founder Sage Weil, who formed the company after developing Ceph over the past several years, starting with his work […]
Posted on September 11th, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) added support today for a browser specification that defines ways for apps to allow resources to be accessed by web pages from different domains. The practice is called Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and has been requested by AWS users for the past few years. The new service represents another way that AWS automates tasks that developers […]
Posted on September 1st, 2012 by admin
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The globalization of our economy — and the role that countries like China play in manufacturing goods that get consumed very far outside its borders — has been a big topic in the tech world. One of the sidenotes of that story is the role of shipping and distribution — an essential part of the equation, […]
Posted on August 17th, 2012 by admin
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Some consolidation up in the clouds: Colt Technology Services has bought ThinkGrid, an enterprise cloud startup that has created a platform for channel partners and small and medium businesses for them in turn to become cloud service providers. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it looks like it was a decent […]
Posted on August 13th, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively offering a service called reserve instances. For a one-time fee, companies may have the option to launch an EC2 instance for one or three years. AWS maintains it lowers costs as you get a choice of the types of instances you buy. You can get discounts by buying on a […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2012 by admin
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The future of customer service is less about the people than it is the sound of a person or the virtual image of an individual. Humans are just so inefficient. But they can be improved, too, through interfaces that provide them more automated capabilities. Salefsorce.com is on the edge of this trend. It continues to acquire companies […]
Posted on July 14th, 2012 by admin
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As we all know by now, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had an outage on Friday. It would not have been much of a big deal except that it was AWS. And the fact that the outage took down big consumer properties like Netflix and Instagram. AWS is usually quite silent about what it does but […]
Posted on July 5th, 2012 by admin
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Now that there’s Google Compute engine, there is yet another infrastructure service that IT managers and startups have to consider. So how do IT managers decide to how to efficiently spend on cloud services? A Dublin-based startup called Cloud Vertical is stepping in with analytics that measure everything from everyday spending to EC2 instances, Amazon S3, […]
Posted on July 5th, 2012 by admin
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Here’s a timely funding announcement: Apica, a company that offers a solution enterprises can use to keep their cloud-based apps running smoothly — even when there are problems in the clouds — has just raised $5 million to continue expanding its services. The news comes after a weekend that saw several popular services like Instagram […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by admin
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