AWS
Microsoft Installs Direct Line To Azure Cloud
A public cloud is only as good as the networks it links into, and so Microsoft has begun to offer dedicated connections to the Windows Azure public cloud. The ...Full Article
Why Amazon Can’t Catch Lucera Financial Cloud
The Lucera cloud that is dedicated to high frequency trading, liquidity matching, and foreign exchange has opened up its doors to customers after building it out for the past ...Full Article
Netflix Speeds Machine Learning With Amazon GPUs
Trying to figure out what 44 million of us in 41 different countries might want to watch next is not just a matter of guessing for video streaming service ...Full Article
Researchers Target Cloud Cost, Performance
When it comes to determining the best cloud provider, the answer depends on many variables. A team of researchers from the Polytechnic School at the University of São Paulo ...Full Article
Inside IBM’s SoftLayer Cloud Build Out
Big companies like to orchestrate their announcements, and it is probably not a coincidence that IBM announced its plan to build out its SoftLayer public cloud just ahead of ...Full Article
Cloud Price War Rages As Microsoft Cuts Azure Storage Prices
Microsoft promised last year it would compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services for compute and storage capacity on its public cloud, and it has made good on that promise ...Full Article
Amazon Cranks Up I/O On New EC2 Cloud Slices
Cloud computing juggernaut Amazon Web Services has forged a new class of server instances for its EC2 compute cloud that feature the kind of high I/O that it says ...Full Article
AWS Cloud Expands Into China, C3 Instances Sell Out
The Amazon Web Services subsidiary of the online retailing giant is expanding its cloud into China, one of the more difficult markets for any IT vendor to crack. China ...Full Article
Lustre Running Better Than Expected On AWS
A few weeks ago, Intel made its variant of the Lustre file system, popular at supercomputing centers and seeing more and more uses among enterprises that need zippy access ...Full Article
Google Compute Engine Gears Up to Take On AWS
Search engine juggernaut Google is taking the beta label off its Compute Engine cloud infrastructure services, taking on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and other public ...Full Article
