AWS
ScaleXtreme Reins in Clouds with Orchestration
Cloud management software provider ScaleXtreme is puffing up its third major release of its cloud management tools, adding a workflow and orchestration engine that can reach up into the ...Full Article
Amazon Web Services Outgrows And Dwarfs Cloud Rivals
Amazon Web Services had first-mover advantage when it launched its EC2 compute cloud back in March 2006, and that was by no means a guarantee of success. But incumbent ...Full Article
Amazon CTO Vogels Outlines Cloud Trends for 2014
With 2013 racing to an end, it’s the time of year when industry visionaries start to reflect on the road that was, and what may come. Among the reflections ...Full Article
Fat and Fast C3 Server Slices Unveiled for AWS Cloud
Rackspace Hosting just announced its own high-performance, flash-based server instances on its public cloud, and Amazon Web Services has answered with EC2 compute cloud instances that have the latest ...Full Article
Amazon SVP Says Outlook for Enterprise Datacenters Is Cloudy
Amazon Web Services doesn't see the world the same way that most system makers do, Andy Jassy, senior vice president of the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, ...Full Article
Rackspace Profits Squeezed by Cloud Competition
Number two has to try harder, and it is not easy being the second-largest public cloud operator behind Amazon Web Services. This is why Rackspace Hosting continues to innovate ...Full Article
Rackspace Jacks Up Memory, Adds SSDs on Public Cloud
If you want to charge a premium price for a product, you have to offer a premium service. Rather than get into a price war with Amazon Web Services, ...Full Article
IBM Says Uncle to AWS on $600 Million CIA Cloud
After nine months of disputing that Amazon Web Services should not have been awarded a massive contract to build a private cloud for the US government's Central Intelligence Agency, ...Full Article
Baylor’s HGSC, DNAnexus Collaborate for Large-Scale Genome Analysis
The Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) at Baylor College of Medicine and DNAnexus are coming together to analyze genomic data on a large scale. In doing so, Baylor has ...Full Article
Big Hadoop Shops Are on a Hockey Stick Growth Curve
As the dominant supplier of commercially supported Hadoop software, Cloudera has perhaps the best view of what is going on among large enterprises as they use the platform. To ...Full Article
