Posts belonging to Category Amazon
March 23, 2012
Amazon Web Services has been quietly reaching out to big business recently looking for business, sources have told us. And in that vein Thursday it agreed to work with open source private cloud peddler Eucalyptus Systems so companies can have an on-premise cloud that nicely migrates workloads to Amazon. It’s a big concession for Amazon [...]
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January 27, 2012
Amazon’s cloud, which, let’s face it, is still pretty much developer turf, broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate enterprise data backup to S3 while creating a comfort level with the cloud among the leery. It’s the first time Amazon [...]
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November 11, 2011
Hewlett-Packard is negotiating the sale of its webOS platform to Amazon according to a source who claims to know what’s going on. Amazon is reportedly now examining the patents that HP acquired when it bought webOS last year as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm. HP CEO Meg Whitman told staff Tuesday that [...]
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February 27, 2010
Microsoft and Amazon have signed a broad patent cross-license that Microsoft said covers Amazon’s e-book reader “Kindle, which employs both open source and Amazon’s proprietary software components, and Amazon’s use of Linux-based servers.” Facts being thin on the ground one is left to speculate that that means all of Amazon’s Linux-based servers everywhere including all [...]
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January 21, 2010
Amazon Thursday turned its Kindle e-reader into a software development platform. It means to release a limited beta Kindle Development Kit next month complete with sample code, APIs, tools and documentation so ISVs can build so-called “active content” for the dingus. Which means it could turn more than just an e-book. More like maybe Apple’s [...]
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May 28, 2009
Amazon has started telling people to send in their cloud data by mail. No, really. Swear to God. It’s not just us enamored of how much better people look by candlelight. Because of dead-slow bandwidth on burgeoning datasets at the customer end Amazon Web Services (AWS) has invented a new Import/Export service that it started [...]
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March 12, 2009
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the subsidiary that runs the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), has tinkered with the cloud’s established pay-as-you-go pricing structure and come up with what it calls reserved instances. Customers will be able to reserve EC2 capacity and get lower hourly usage charges for what Amazon calls a low one-time non-refundable fee. [...]
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