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  Amazon Web Services aims to make life easier for Windows developers

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows ASP.NET developers to take advantage of Elastic Beanstalk, which has been developed to make it easier to roll out cloud-based applications, the company said on Tuesday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 02:07

  Tags: Web services development, software, internet, Infrastructure services, Development tools, development platforms, cloud computing, AWS, application development, Amazon Web Services, amazon.com, amazon

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  Apple, Amazon drive US stocks higher

  Tech giants Apple and Amazon have proved their mettle to doubting investors once again, leading US stocks higher in the week as the markets showed they had not yet run out of steam.

  By AAP | 30 April, 2012 09:29

  Tags: amazon, Apple, business, US stocks

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  Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings provide some bright spots

  With Apple leading the revenue charge midweek and Amazon providing a kick to trading in tech shares Friday morning, bright spots appeared in what has otherwise been a mixed earnings season.

  By Marc Ferranti | 28 April, 2012 02:16

  Tags: amazon, Apple, Arm, business issues, financial results, IBM, Intel, netsuite, sap, texas instruments

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  Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds

  Amazon Web Services has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described using templates, the company said on Wednesday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 26 April, 2012 21:54

  Tags: amazon, amazon.com, Amazon Web Services, AWS, cloud computing, Infrastructure services, internet

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  Greenpeace's sign to Amazon, Microsoft: 'How clean is your cloud?'

  Activists at Greenpeace intensified their environmental criticism of Amazon and Microsoft today by posting signage near the Seattle offices of both companies questioning the cleanliness of the companies' clouds.

  By Brandon Butler | 20 April, 2012 05:36

  Tags: amazon, clean cloud, cloud computing, Greenpeace, internet, Microsoft, NASA, shuttle

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  Amazon cloud set stage for rapid Pinterest growth

  The explosive success of the social networking service Pinterest wouldn't have been possible without the easy scalability of the Amazon cloud services, an executive for Pinterest said.

  By Joab Jackson | 20 April, 2012 04:37

  Tags: amazon, AWS, cloud computing, development platforms, Infrastructure services, internet

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  Apple, major publishers sued over e-book pricing

  The United States Department of Justice has sued Apple and five major book publishers, accusing them of colluding to raise e-book prices.

  By Jared Newman | 12 April, 2012 02:00

  Tags: amazon, antitrust, Apple, apple ipad, consumer electronics, e-books, e-readers, legal, legal issues

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  Will Google tablet sales frag or defrag the Android market?

  For consumers who don't live and breathe Android, the market can be confusing. There are dozens of phone models, many running different versions of the Android operating system.

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 10 April, 2012 05:22

  Tags: amazon, Android, Google, hardware systems, Kindle Fire, tablet PC, tablets

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  OpenStack development finds big growing pains

  It's been an interesting past few weeks for OpenStack.

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

  Tags: amazon, Amazon Web Services, Apache Software Foundation, Citrix, cloud computing, eucalyptus, Gartner, internet, NASA, open cloud, OpenStack, rackspace, software

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  Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates

  Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.

  By Jon Gold | 17 March, 2012 07:39

  Tags: accenture, amazon, amazon ec2, cloud computing, cloud technology, internet

• Android Market hits 450K apps, challengers abound

  Google's Android Market is nipping at the heels of Apple's iOS App Store in terms of number of offerings.

  By Ian Paul | 28 February, 2012 02:15

  Tags: amazon, Android, Apple, applications, consumer electronics, Google, htc, iOS, mobile, Mobile OSes, smartmedia, smartphones, sony, Telecommunication

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  Citrix simplifies Cloud service management

  Citrix is shipping a new version of its Cloud management software, CloudStack, that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision Cloud services.

  By Tim Greene | 14 February, 2012 08:26

  Tags: amazon, Amazon Web Services, Citrix, cloud computing, cloud management, CloudStack, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, internet, Virtualization

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  Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN

  Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 February, 2012 01:29

  Tags: amazon, cloud computing, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, encryption, hardware systems, internet, Kemp, Lloyds, network-attached storage, network storage, SAN; cloud; IBM mainframe, security, storage, Strata, Twinstrata, TwinStrata; encryption

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  Report: Amazon to open physical retail store

  Amazon, a pioneer in Internet retailing, may soon open up a brick-and-mortar shop.

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 07 February, 2012 10:13

  Tags: amazon, amazon.com, Consumer Advice, industry verticals, internet, retail, shopping

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  Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston Enterprise OS

  Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party.

  By Colin Neagle | 21 January, 2012 09:28

  Tags: amazon, cloud computing, internet, NASA, NASA Nebula, OpenStack, Piston Cloud Computing, Piston Enterprise OS, software, VMware