For heavy-duty AWS users the fact that they can now redeploy reserved instances between availability zones within the same region will come as good news.…
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Amazon Web Services gets Intel Inside branding
Well this is a marketing coup. The biggest chip maker gets the biggest cloud provider to use its silicon and display its…
Read MoreSpanish startup ECmanaged aims to make moving apps between clouds easy
We're counting down to Structure:Europe where ten startups will take the stage and launch. Meet ECManage, a cloud management company that helps you move apps between cloud providers.…
Read MoreAmazon strikes back at GAO, IBM over reopening of CIA cloud contract
In a legal filing, AWS lays out its argument why its bid to build the CIA's private cloud should stand. The contract is worth an estimated $600 million.…
Read MoreICYMI podcasts: Software defined networks now, mobile banking of the future
The four GigaOM podcasts covered a range of topics this week: From SDNs and VMWare to BlackBerry's past and present. We also discuss why the future of mobile banking will change due to connected devices, so tune in!…
Read MoreTold ya so: Amazon gears up more services for mobile developers
Updated: New AWS Simple Notification Service lets devs automate push notifications to iOS, Google and -- oh yes -- Amazon devices using one API.…
Read MoreAmazon updates CloudFormation update processes
Developers and admins can now update their CloudFormation stack in parallel rather than sequentially, thanks to two updates.…
Read MoreICYMI podcasts: Hortonworks hears a “who” but Amazon shouldn’t hear the nukes
Hortonworks lost both a co-founder and a CTO this week: Who's going to right the ship? GE supports industrial data in the cloud, but only to a point: Hear why the company thinks AWS won't ever be place for nuclear power plant data.…
Read MoreWhy the CIA cloud contract is worth so much more than $600M; the week in cloud
The CIA cloud in and of itself is a semi-big deal. But the reason IBM and Amazon Web Services are duking it out for this business is the winner will get a leg up in tons more "cloud-first" government projects.…
Read MoreCloudSigma attributes IaaS price cuts to efficiency rather than Amazon-chasing
The Swiss cloud infrastructure provider says it has dropped its compute prices as a result of its homegrown stack's efficiency, not because it's joining Amazon's race to the bottom.…
Read MoreAmazon’s cloud keeps on growing
What goes up, just keeps going up -- at least if it's Amazon Web Services, which logged about $844 million in net sales for the second quarter.…
Read MoreIs Rackspace holding OpenStack back?
CloudScaling CTO Randy Bias argues that Amazon Web Services APIs are already the lingua franca of the cloud and supporting them is key to OpenStack success.…
Read MoreA bird’s eye view of the AT&T-Leap Wireless merger
With the help of some maps from Mosaik, GigaOM breaks down what AT&T really gets if it acquires Leap. Our conclusion: AT&T is paying a ridiculous price but it probably feels it has no choice.…
Read MoreAmazon cuts prices by 80 percent on some compute-on-demand offerings
Updated: Amazon Web Services cuts prices again -- this time on dedicated EC2 instances and by as much as 80 percent in some scenarios.…
Read MoreUS Cellular sheds more spectrum, selling valuable AWS airwaves to T-Mobile
Rather than expanding further into the major metro markets, U.S. Cellular is retreating from them. It is selling a valuable chunk of 4G airwaves to T-Mobile, covering some big cities in the central U.S.…
Read MoreMission: Translating Amazon “cloud speak” for CIO, CEOs and other mere mortals
If you're a devops pro you probably speak AWS. If you're a CIO, CEO, line-of-business manager, probably not. Cloudyn says it'll make your lives easier.…
Read MoreCIA cloud battle redux? U.S. defense agency puts cloud work out to bid
With a new $450 million federal cloud computing contract up for bid, will we see tech giants Amazon and IBM duke it out again?…
Read MoreCloud wars: what happens when one vendor outs another?
Update: It's messy when one tech vendor claims a major competitive win without the customer around to validate it. So, is Workday using HP Cloud or not?…
Read MoreComing from Amazon — lots of Mini-Me clouds for government work?
Amazon's GovCloud targets U.S. state, federal and local government workloads. Here's betting AWS will replicate that model abroad.…
Read MoreT-Mobile’s plan to supercharge LTE: A whole lot of antennas
Exclusive to GigaOM: Over the next 12 months, T-Mobile USA will bolt thousands of new LTE antennas to its cell towers, utilizing a technique called 4X2 MIMO. It's not LTE-Advanced, but it will create a faster and more resilient network.…
Read MoreWhy IBM desperately needed to buy SoftLayer
Can IBM use SoftLayer as a way to fend off Amazon Web Service incursions? Or is it already too late?…
Read MoreThe week in cloud: Can Windows Azure disrupt Amazon’s cloud? Stay tuned.
The public cloud computing landscape gets more interesting with Microsoft pushing its new Windows Azure infrastructure services vs. Amazon (and Google.)…
Read MoreVerizon’s new supersized LTE network will be bigger and badder, but not faster
Verizon will make most LTE device compatible with the new 4G network it's building in the AWS band. For consumers, this doesn't necessarily mean faster speeds, but their mobile data experience will certainly improve.…
Read MoreSay hello to Netflix Conformity Monkey
Conformity Monkey, as its name implies, finds badly behaving compute instances, in the Amazon public cloud.…
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