AWS Evangelist Jeff Barr hinted about Docker support to come at Re:invent, which is interesting. What may be more interesting is that AWS appears to be changing its behavior.…
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Yup, AWS dives into mobile services but (watch out Box!) collaboration and doc sharing too
AWS takes on Google Drive, Box, Dropbox with Zocalo document sharing and collaboration service.…
Read MoreLessons learned from Structure 2014
The week in cloud: Structure 2014 was abuzz about the impact of NSA spy-gate on cloud adoption; if there's enough business to sustain umpteen-different providers; and whether security concerns will strangle the IoT in its infancy.…
Read MoreThe best defense against surveillance in the cloud is strong locks, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
Revelations about surveillance by governments and spy agencies have made it harder for cloud providers like Amazon, but chief technology officer Werner Vogel says the company has responded by promoting its use of strong encryption.…
Read More“NSA gate” makes global expansion a sticky wicket for U.S. cloud providers …
... but they're forging ahead anyway. In their expansion mode they will also face growing competition from local providers, especially in China. The Week in Cloud.…
Read MoreAmazon CTO Werner Vogels: Cloud and SaaS are going global, fast
Amazon's cloud services helped jump start a lot of entrepreneurial activity and now its globe trotting, maverick CTO Werner Vogels believes it help global small and medium sized businesses embrace the cloud and SaaS -- which in the end is a good news for AWS.…
Read MoreGood news, bad news: Amazon RDS gets Postgres support but it costs more than MySQL(!)
Postgres and MySQL are both open source databases, but MySQL is owned by Oracle. So why is it cheaper than Postgres on Amazon's RDS?…
Read MoreNew startup economics: Why Amazon (web services) and Dropbox need each other
The role of Amazon's web services in revolutionizing the startup ecosystem is well illustrated by the spectacular rise of Dropbox, an online storage service. Their symbiotic relationship shows why Amazon has such a massive lead over rivals in the ever evolving business of cloud computing.…
Read MoreNew from AWS — big, bad instance types
DynamoDB and other NoSQL databases could make very good use of new mega I2 EC2 instances, says Amazon's Werner Vogels.…
Read MoreGearing up for AWS re:Invent
What to expect: Keynotes by Amazon Web Services bigwigs (minus Jeff Bezos); Netflix, NASA; a scrum of partner announcements; and lots of counter programming from cloud rivals.…
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 MoreVogels: Everyone wants Amazon cloud everywhere
More gated Amazon Web Services mini-clouds could pop up outside the U.S. going forward.…
Read MoreStructure 2013 live coverage
Here's a roundup of all of our coverage from Structure 2013, the definitive state-of-the-cloud event.…
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 MoreAmazon’s cloud is how big again?
New numbers from Netcraft show that the number of Amazon Web Services servers has exploded over the past 9 months.…
Read MoreSurprised? Cloud providers bring in $2B in first quarter
What company remains atop the heap of IaaS/PaaS providers in Q1 2013? I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count.…
Read MoreKiller cloud: report says Amazon Web Services threatens all IT incumbents
New Morgan Stanley research expects AWS to hit $24 billion in revenue by 2022 and to put the hurt on legacy IT providers in the process.…
Read MoreAmazon spreads net wider by federating Facebook and Google (and Amazon) identities
If you're a developer, chances are you use Amazon Web Services for something. Now if you want to authenticate Google and Facebook users for your app, you can do so.…
Read MoreHow Amazon’s cloud competitors are trying to find cracks in AWS’s armor
News flash: The public cloud "ain't all that," says every cloud provider in the universe (except for Amazon Web Services.)…
Read MoreCloud wars to rage on with dueling OpenStack, AWS events next week
Can't get enough cloud? Just wait till next week when OpenStack and Amazon Web Services host simultaneous events 3,000 miles apart.…
Read MoreStructure 2013: Bring on the practitioners!
Are you going to the sixth Structure conference on June 19 and 20? If your business depends in any way on the cloud and enterprise IT, you will want to be there.…
Read MoreThe week in cloud: VMware fesses up; Amazon adds features; Newvem watches Amazon
It was a busy week in cloud as VMware took the wraps off its public cloud play; Newvem added still another way to watch your Amazon account; and Amazon itself churned out a ton of new AWS features.…
Read MoreNetflix fronts $100K for best cloud ideas
Netflix wants to hear about your great cloud computing ideas and is willing to pay for the privilege.…
Read MoreAmazon slices prices on DynamoDB database service
Not a huge surprise: Amazon Web Services cut prices on its DynamoDB NoSQL database service just over a year after its launch.…
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