Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on …
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Bahrain sovereign wealth fund reduces IT costs by 50% with AWS
Sheikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has recently announced the successful migration of the company’s IT infrastructure to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and the closure of its onsite and offsite data centres.0 3773
Amazon Cloud Drive takes aim at Dropbox, Google with sync feature
Amazon is making a serious play for Dropbox and Google Drive users with a new file-syncing feature in its Cloud Drive …
Former Microsoft manager takes on secretive role at Amazon
The former general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Phone developer platform started a new job at Amazon on Monday, leading a …
‘People are buying dumb storage’
At Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Hu Yoshida is the CTO responsible for defining the company’s technical direction. For everybody else, …
Flexible data centres
With demand for storage and networking capabilities skyrocketing, in-house and hosted data centres are being put under greater pressure than …
Oracle acquires private cloud firm Nimbula
Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
AWS provides easy entry to SAP HANA
It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features …
Mobile industry ‘no longer about devices’
The mobile industry might be preparing to show off lots of new gadgets at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but …
BlackBerry 10 launch ‘breaks records’
BlackBerry said this week that launch sales of its new BlackBerry 10-based handsets in Canada and the U.K. have beaten …