Amazon cloud assets will be sold to the firm’s Chinese partner Beijing Sinnet, according to recent reports. Amazon has issued …
Souq adds ‘affordable’ AmazonBasics range to its website
In a Facebook post on August 24th by Ronaldo Mouchawar, the founder and CEO of Souq, he announced that AmazonBasics would be available immediately for sale on the Souq website.
AWS debuts data security tool Amazon Macie
Amazon Macie recognises sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property, and provides customers with dashboards and alerts that give visibility into how this data is being accessed or moved.
Amazon begins search for office, logistics space in Dubai
Amazon is understood to have started a search for its first office in Dubai, following its recent acquisition of Souq.com.
Amazon Connect brings contact centres to the cloud
Amazon has released Connect, a contact centre as a service offering hosted in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
Gemalto advances secure communications for financial services
Gemalto has announced the integration of its SafeNet Hardware Security Modules (HSM) with Symphony Communication Services’ secure cloud-based communications platform.
Amazon further powers cloud service data centres
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it will build and operate a 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Ohio that will power its current and future cloud service data centres.
Infoblox introduces enterprise-grade network services to the AWS Cloud
Infoblox has introduced Infoblox DDI for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a virtual appliance that extends the Infoblox solution for enterprise-grade network services and security to the AWS Cloud.
Oracle launches 24 new cloud services
Oracle has recently launched a number of new cloud services that the company claims will provide enterprises with all the …
Amazon offers network file storage in the cloud
Amazon Web Services continues to chip away at the enterprise storage market, with plans for a new service designed to be a nimbler alternative to network attached storage (NAS) appliances.
Amazon acquires 2lementry
Amazon.com has acquired 2lemetry, a startup that has developed a platform for the integration of connected devices across enterprises, as it expands on its Internet of Things strategy. The current customers of 2lemetry will continue to be supported, with the name and branding retained.
Amazon in $970 million game streaming site acquisition
Amazon will pay $970 million to acquire Twitch, a site for live video broadcasts of people’s video gaming sessions.
Amazon counters Google with its own cloud price cuts
The price war among major cloud providers continues, with Amazon Web Services announcing Wednesday that it is lowering the prices of a number of its cloud services, one day after Google slashed prices.
Amazon and Microsoft drop US cloud storage prices by up to 50%
Last April, Microsoft committed to matching Amazon’s Web Services prices for compute, storage and bandwidth.
Verizon signs-up Oracle to tackle Amazon in the cloud
Verizon is building up its cloud service to take on the heavyweight of the industry – Amazon Web Services – and says it took a big step toward that direction by partnering with Oracle this week.
Bring on the services
There is an increasing emphasis on service-aligned approach to IT operations so that CIOs can deliver on the promise of partnering with business. Ashish Kuthiala, Chief Marketing Officer, Business Services Management Software, HP, talks about the value of a services aligned view of IT.
Amazon: New analytics tool can scrutinise massive amounts of data
Amazon Web Services this week released its new cloud-based data analytics tool Kinesis, which can analyse large amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour.
Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud
Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that picture as well.
Amazon hiring 'top secret' IT staff as it fights for CIA work
The U.S. isn’t doing a good job keeping secrets. Think Edward Snowden. But demand for trustworthy IT professionals is strong, especially if they want to work for Amazon Web Services.
EMC takes on Amazon, Microsoft with public-cloud alternative
EMC today unveiled a new product initiative called Project Nile, which it expects will be the world’s first commercially available, complete …