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Amazon keeps on wooing enterprise admins, this time with Windows System Center support

If you want to win enterprise workloads to your cloud, making it easy for in-house admins to manage their resources from a familiar screen is a good way to start.

by Barb Darrow Oct 30, 2014 - 7:10 AM PST

Amazon bolsters hybrid cloud case with AWS Directory Services

Now AWS has a directory for its cloud resources that also reaches into on-premises implementations.

by Barb Darrow Oct 22, 2014 - 10:33 AM PST

Amazon launches itty-bitty EC2 instances

Amazon Web Services rolls out tiny T2 EC2 instances that can burst up to handle occasional workload spikes.

by Barb Darrow Jul 1, 2014 - 6:06 AM PST

Amazon cordons off — but keeps selling — oldie but goodie EC2 instances

Amazon will keep fielding EC2 instances that have been around since 2006, but it will steer customers to newer, more powerful and efficient resources. The question is: how long will this last?

by Barb Darrow Apr 16, 2014 - 5:29 AM PST

How Oscar nominee American Hustle used cloud to recreate disco-era NYC

The team used their own visual effects and rendering expertise atop Amazon’s brawn to do the sort special effects that succeed because you don’t know they’re there.

by Barb Darrow Mar 2, 2014 - 1:30 PM PST

Not confused enough? Here’s another Amazon EC2 instance type

New high-IOPS I2 instances suit use with NoSQL databases and other I/O-sensitive applications. AWS announced plans for these instances in November and is delivering them now.

by Barb Darrow Dec 20, 2013 - 5:55 AM PST

Abiquo promises enterprises and service providers a VMware-EC2 bridge

The new release is the first to explicitly take Abiquo past its enterprise roots, as the company is now also pitching to service providers who want to serve hybrid-curious enterprises.

by David Meyer Oct 1, 2013 - 10:22 AM PST

Amazon reboot causes a tempest on Twitter

Amazon is scheduling what looks to be a significant number of reboots to customer EC2 instances in the coming weeks. Customers started getting letters informing them of the instance restarts on Tuesday, according to Cloudscaling. It is unclear what issue the patches address.

by Barb Darrow Dec 7, 2011 - 1:28 PM PST

Fyels Debuts Unlimited Twitter File Sharing

Fyels just launched a new service for file sharing through Twitter, and it comes with almost no strings attached: The service offers unlimited, free and ad-free storage, and files can be as large as 9 GB each. Almost sounds to good to be true, doesn’t it?

by Janko Roettgers May 25, 2011 - 12:20 PM PST

3Tera Unbundles Applogic and Unveils a Virtual Data Center

Virtualization holds lots of promise: Move your physical machines to virtual ones, and you’ll reclaim capacity at the same time that you…

by Alistair Croll May 20, 2008 - 12:01 AM PST