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Amazon Makes It Easier To Host Static Web Pages On S3

While using S3 without the rest of Amazon’s web services doesn’t allow you to host any complex sites, S3 can be a good choice for hosting basic sites and images. As there are no monthly subscription fees, you only pay Amazon’s relatively low fees for
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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks AWS, Innovation, Customer Service & Space …

Amazon Web Services, Bezos argued, is similar to the company’s Kindle Device business in that “we make money when people use the Kindle, not when they buy it.” AWS, too, is a pay-as-you-go service after all, and just like owners of an early Kindle can
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Amazon Web Services Expected To Hit $1.5 Billion In Revenues For 2012

Amazon Web Services Logo. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expected to earn $1.5 billion in revenues this year but overall the organization still remains under appreciated as a core asset of Amazon.com, its parent organization. But that may change this
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Netflix Releases Hystrix, A Service For Making Apps In The Cloud More Resilient

Netflix is open sourcing its libraries for connecting the numerous services it uses on Amazon Web Services to keep its business running. Dubbed Hystrix, the offering is just another example of how Netflix has become the model for how to deploy and
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Enterprise Cloud Security Firm Qualys Files For $100 Million IPO

Qualys, a Silicon Valley company that specializes in cloud security software for the enterprise, has just filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission announcing its intent to hold an IPO and sell up to $100 million worth of its stock.
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Meg Whitman Details Layoffs To HP Employees In Internal Video, Thinks HP Is …

“We’ll be investing to drive leadership in the three strategic pillars – cloud, security and information optimization. And in each of our businesses, we’ll make investments to stay ahead of customer expectations and market trends.
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“In the Studio,” Nebula’s Chris Kemp Wants Startups to Scale Efficiently

founded a few companies, and wound up as the Chief Technical Officer of NASA, where he oversaw the development of the Open Stack Project and has now left found a company in Palo Alto that aims to commercialize that technology in new ways.
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The Open Source CEO: Jim Whitehurst

SM: Now that Amazon has blessed Eucalyptus, do you feel any pressure to divert resources away from OpenStack? JW: We actually announced last week that we have joined the OpenStack Foundation as a Platinum Member and will be continuing to invest
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Linux Foundation To Host Open Source Cloud Conference “CloudOpen”

Most of the major players are already committed to participating at CloudOpen: Canonical, Citrix, Dell, Eucalyptus, HP, IBM, Intel, OpenStack, Red Hat and SUSE. From the press release: “Designed for software developers and IT managers responsible for
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Wikimedia Brings The Wikipedia Approach To How It Runs Its Servers

For about a year and a half, though, the Wikimedia Foundation – the organization behind Wikipedia and its sister projects – has been quietly working on Wikimedia Labs, a new project based on OpenStack that will allow volunteers to help the Wikimedia
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