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NewsWhat IT needs to know about Amazon's Kindle Fire
Perhaps your team has figured out by now how to deal with the iPhones, iPads and Android phones that employees bring into the work environment, but there's no rest for the weary. The newly released, Read more...
Q&A: CIOs need to think big
TASC is a third-party benefits administrator offering employee services like flexible spending accounts and health benefits accounts as well as HR services, such as COBRA administration. The Read more...
Major cloud providers mum on revenues, calling into question long-term viability
With the launch of Microsoft's Office 365 this week, all eyes are once again focused on the cloud services industry. But companies are being coy about their cloud services revenues, and John Foley of Read more...
Cloud risks put in spotlight by Amazon outage
The reputation of cloud computing took another hit late last week when several high-profile customers of Amazon's web hosting services were knocked offline. Amazon said that it had server problems in Read more...
Intel's interoperable cloud vision and its skeptics
Three new projects out of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC)--the Cloud 2015 vision, the Open Data Center Alliance and Intel Cloud Builders--aim to make cloud computing more interoperable, but the rather Read more...
Lending feature, magazines coming to Amazon Kindle
Amazon is set to bring ebook lending to its Kindle platform, scheduled to be made available "later this year." The announcement was outlined in a blog post on its community site, together with the Read more...
Amazon to offer a year of EC2 usage for free
Amazon will be giving a year's free usage on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) cloud platform to developers starting from the month of November. A new usage tier consisting of Amazon Simple Storage Read more...
More "reserved instances" expected from cloud vendors
Many organizations have been reluctant to embrace services offered over the public cloud, and vendors in turn are starting to offer reserved portions of the cloud to allay concerns about losing Read more...
Consultant firm ranks cloud-computing vendors
Everyone in IT seems to be getting into the business of cloud computing in one way or another. To help companies sort through the dizzying array of cloud service and equipment providers, IT Read more...
Comcast's win over FCC reignites Net Neutrality debate
The most immediate ramification of Comcast's net neutrality victory over the Federal Communications Commission this week is that ISPs might feel less inclined not to interfere in the traffic running Read more...
| Press ReleasesRed Hat Introduces Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web ServicesNew release enables organizations to extend scale-out NAS storage to the cloud with support planned for additional cloud providers in the future RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: Read more >> Fiberlink Certifies the Amazon Kindle Fire for Use in the EnterpriseMaaS360 Provides IT Enterprise Management Capabilities for Popular Consumer Tablet BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fiberlink®, the leader in software-as-a-service solutions for secure mobile device Read more >> Amazon Kindle Fire Gets Its Own 'Personal Cloud Desktop' with AlwaysOnPC App LaunchSANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xform Computing, Inc. announces its AlwaysOnPC mobile app for Android is available in the Amazon Apps Store, with editions for Kindle Fire and Read more >> Kunnect Partners with jobs4america to Create Job GrowthFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kunnect, a leading provider of cloud-based call center telephony solutions, today announced that it has joined jobs4america, a coalition of organizations Read more >> Amazon Web Services Adds Microsoft Windows Server Instances to Free Usage TierSEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that customers can now run their Microsoft Windows Server applications within the AWS Read more >> |




