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  Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamouring for enterprise customers

  Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.

  By Brandon Butler | 18 April, 2013 22:05

  Tags: amazon.com, Google Cloud, Microsoft cloud, cloud computing, internet, Rackspace cloud, Amazon Cloud, amazon ec2, amazon s3, Amazon cloud pricing, Google, Microsoft, WD, cloud services, Cloud, OpenStack, rackspace, Amazon Web Services

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  Dell announces Aussie datacentre footprint, to move Cloud services to region

  IT giant, Dell, has unveiled its local datacentre play by announcing two “significant investments in the millions of dollars” to settle into two sites along the Australian Eastern seaboard.

  By Nermin Bajric | 27 February, 2013 10:27

  Tags: datacentre, Dell, cloud services, polaris, Hosted, Joe Kremer

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  DIY Cloud: Choosing your own virtual machine image sizes

  Amazon Web Services, seen by many as the market-leading infrastructure cloud computing provider, has a pretty full shelf of virtual machine (VM) image sizes for customers to spin up in its Cloud -- 17 separate instance VM sizes are listed on the company's website, in fact.

  By Brandon Butler | 15 February, 2013 17:13

  Tags: cloud VMs, cloud virtual machines, cloud computing, internet, Amazon Cloud, HP, Google, Microsoft, WD, Cloud, cloud services, CloudSigma, ProfitBricks, OpenStack, VMware, rackspace, Amazon Web Services

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  SDN switch company takes aim at the cloud

  SDN switch vendor Pica8 this week unveiled a reference architecture intended to help cloud providers develop their programmable networks using Pica8 products.

  By Jim Duffy | 10 December, 2012 14:11

  Tags: open source, Configuration / maintenance, Pica8, hardware systems, Data Center, cloud computing, internet, LAN & WAN, OpenFlow, SDN, Cloud, cloud services, amp, software, VMware, OpenStack

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  Australian government agencies still reaching for the cloud: Ovum

  Federal and state government agencies in Australia have yet to realise cloud computing’s role in the digital economy and should look to the example set by service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to an Australian analyst.

  By Hamish Barwick | 22 November, 2012 16:03

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, digital economy, Stephen Conroy, goverment cloud, ovum, cloud services, agimo, cloud computing, NBN

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  Batten Down the Hatches! A Guide to Protecting Data in Motion

  The risks facing high-speed data networks and unencrypted data while in motion are very real and on the rise. As information becomes one of the most valuable ‘off balance sheet’ assets, protection of that information and the investment in it is a paramount obligation of office-holders and management. Read now for a better understanding of the risks to data in motion.

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  The Foundation for Cloud Management