AWS
AWS Acquires NICE Compute-Intensive Cloud and Visualization Technologies
In announcing its acquisition of NICE, the Italy-based software-as-a-service provider for high performance and technical computing, Amazon and AWS not only acquire technology for optimizing customers’ HPC, cloud and ...Full Article
Amazon Enters Chip Business with ARM Platform
Amazon.com crashed the semiconductor sector this week, announcing that its Annapurna Labs Inc. subsidiary would offer an ARM-based platform-on-a-chip targeting network-attached storage and networking applications. The new chips dubbed ...Full Article
Network Outages Expose an Aging, Vulnerable Internet
None of us is getting any younger, and the same is true of the Internet. Experts who track major outages are warning that the Internet is not aging well, ...Full Article
Google Targets AWS With New Cloud Boss Diane Greene
Google is upping the ante in the cloud, moving beyond incremental tactics like price wars with market leader Amazon Web Services, to develop a long-term enterprise strategy under new ...Full Article
SoftLayer, Google Top Cloud Benchmark
An expanded cloud-benchmarking test again found public cloud competitors outperforming industry leader Amazon Web Services in terms of performance and price, with the bare metal version of IBM's SoftLayer ...Full Article
Survey: HPC Storage Sector is Booming
Nearly one-third of storage systems spanning storage area networks to cloud platforms reached 1 petabyte or greater capacity in 2015, according to a user census that also projects more ...Full Article
Survey: Enterprises Lack Visibility Into Public Clouds
Public cloud adoption continues to surge, but not all adopters are seeing an immediate return on the investment, an industry survey concludes. In a survey of more than 1,600 ...Full Article
AWS Launches Container Services, DevOps Tools Follow
Amazon Web Services (AMZN) beefed up the Docker application container infrastructure this week with the roll out of a container registry and interface tool designed to scale and rapidly ...Full Article
AWS Back in Business, but Enterprises Can Learn from Outage
Amazon Web Services appears to have recovered from an outage that disrupted customers including Tinder, Netflix, and IMDb on Sunday. And while the service's disruption should not dissuade businesses ...Full Article
The (Cloud) World is Coming to Columbus
The technology forecast for Columbus, Ohio, is mostly cloudy. The capital of The Buckeye State has attracted so many datacenters from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and ...Full Article
