Features

• Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

  By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

  There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

• Hype Watch: The Kindle and other e-readers

  By John Brandon | 24 September, 2009 06:50

  The Amazon Kindle and other e-readers have potential as a business device. But they need more capabilities to catch on in the enterprise.

• The future of publishing?

  By CIO Staff | 24 September, 2009 06:50

  Social networks, e-readers and other technologies are transforming the publishing industry and heralding a new era of reading and learning.

• Is the Amazon Kindle good for business?

  By John Brandon | 11 August, 2009 08:00

  What It Is: Big business has learned its lesson about paper consumption: We read Word docs on laptops, use the copier sparingly and print only what we need. Yet, the paperless office is still a distant dream. E-Readers at least give the trees--and therefore the human race--a chance. The 170 dot-per-inch screen resolution--well over twice that of the typical computer monitor--lessens eye fatigue. Right now, the Amazon Kindle DX, with its 9.7-inch screen, is as close to reading printed material as possible on an electronic device.

• Target dumps Amazon.com, reboots on e-commerce

  By Thomas Wailgum | 11 August, 2009 04:24

  Amazon.com has been down this road before: Like one-time Amazon e-commerce "partners" Toys R Us and Borders before them, Target executives announced last week that the world's second-largest retailer plans to say adios to Amazon.com and "build and manage its own platform for Target.com," with an expected launch date before the 2011 holiday season.

• BMC makes cloud management push with Amazon as partner

  By Kevin Fogarty | 16 July, 2009 04:04

  BMC Software announced today it is launching an expanded set of cloud-management products and services, including a partnership with Amazon Web Services that is designed to help end-user companies keep control of data even outside their firewalls.

• Cloud Computing Special Part 1: Looking For The Silver Lining

  By Brad Howarth | 06 July, 2009 10:12

  Australian companies of all types are cautiously shifting applications out of the data centre and into the cloud. Despite all the hype, cloud computing is proving to be one trend that's more than just hot air.

• Why my company uses Amazon’s EC2 cloud

  By CIO Staff | 06 July, 2009 10:04

  Got unpredictable demand for your company's Web-based service? Perhaps Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud is the answer. Here's how one start-up cashed in on Amazon EC2.

• Who is in the Cloud?

  By Brad Howarth | 06 July, 2009 10:38

  Salesforce.com may have made the early headlines, but it has since been joined by a plethora of software-as-a-services companies selling almost any service that can be hosted in a data centre.

• Why My Company Uses Amazon's EC2 Cloud

  By Rob Lemos | 19 May, 2009 10:02

  Running an Internet startup remains a tricky business, says link-sharing service ShareThis. During the past two years, more than 110,000 sites have added the ShareThis embedded link, allowing readers to forward articles or videos to their friends. The popularity has made the company's data requirements enormous: it handles up to 12,000 requests a second and 130 million page views every day.