News

• Amazon Web Services aims to make life easier for Windows developers

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 02:07

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows ASP.NET developers to take advantage of Elastic Beanstalk, which has been developed to make it easier to roll out cloud-based applications, the company said on Tuesday.

• Apple, Amazon drive US stocks higher

  By AAP | 30 April, 2012 09:29

  Tech giants Apple and Amazon have proved their mettle to doubting investors once again, leading US stocks higher in the week as the markets showed they had not yet run out of steam.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings provide some bright spots

  By Marc Ferranti | 28 April, 2012 02:16

  With Apple leading the revenue charge midweek and Amazon providing a kick to trading in tech shares Friday morning, bright spots appeared in what has otherwise been a mixed earnings season.

• Friday Grok: Dotcom results — very good news, with more to come

  By Andrew Birmingham | 27 April, 2012 09:48

  The dotcom sector is blitzing it. Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Zinga have all reported this week, and while commentary has been a little mixed around some of the results, the reality is that the view from the cockpit of the helicopter is spectacular.

• Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 26 April, 2012 21:54

  Amazon Web Services has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described using templates, the company said on Wednesday.

• Amazon cloud set stage for rapid Pinterest growth

  By Joab Jackson | 20 April, 2012 04:37

  The explosive success of the social networking service Pinterest wouldn't have been possible without the easy scalability of the Amazon cloud services, an executive for Pinterest said.

• Apple, major publishers sued over e-book pricing

  By Jared Newman | 12 April, 2012 02:00

  The United States Department of Justice has sued Apple and five major book publishers, accusing them of colluding to raise e-book prices.

• Will Google tablet sales frag or defrag the Android market?

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 10 April, 2012 05:22

  For consumers who don't live and breathe Android, the market can be confusing. There are dozens of phone models, many running different versions of the Android operating system.

• OpenStack development finds big growing pains

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

  It's been an interesting past few weeks for OpenStack.

• Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates

  By Jon Gold | 17 March, 2012 07:39

  Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.

• Evolve 2012: TechnologyOne invests $200m in new Cloud platform

  By Chloe Herrick | 22 February, 2012 13:51

  Australian enterprise software company, TechnologyOne, has launched a Cloud service for customers, flagging plans to invest $200 million over the next five years in research and development of the platform.

• Citrix simplifies Cloud service management

  By Tim Greene | 14 February, 2012 08:26

  Citrix is shipping a new version of its Cloud management software, CloudStack, that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision Cloud services.

• Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 February, 2012 01:29

  Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

• Report: Amazon to open physical retail store

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 07 February, 2012 10:13

  Amazon, a pioneer in Internet retailing, may soon open up a brick-and-mortar shop.

• Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston Enterprise OS

  By Colin Neagle | 21 January, 2012 09:28

  Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party.