Utility computing can ease big data pain
Adopting cloud or utility computing models can ease the pain for organisations analysing large amounts unstructured and structured data to gain insights that improve their competitiveness.
View ArticleTravel agent takes flight with cloud
Jumping from managed hardware to the cloud has paid off at Sydney-based travel agency Jetabroad, slashing deployment time and cutting costs, according to the company's chief technology officer,...
View ArticleMonkeys, armed bees deliver resilience for NAB
Two open source tools have helped National Australia Bank build a resilient cloud-based infrastructure to deliver its online presence, David Broeren, head of the digital and online channels at the...
View ArticleGPT's breakneck cloud transition
For an enterprise to completely ditch on-premise hardware for the cloud is a radical step. To do so in the space of a year might be considered a little unhinged.
View ArticleAmazon brings cloud-based virtual desktops to Australia
Amazon's virtual-desktops-as-a-service offering is now available in the cloud giant's Sydney region. Amazon WorkSpaces provides Windows 7-based virtual desktops served out of AWS' data centres for a...
View ArticleWhy Victoria's fire services turned to cloud for capacity
Inadequate infrastructure to cope with end user demand can cripple an organisation and risks doing damage to reputation and revenue. But when your organisation needs to deliver information that may...
View ArticleAWS is safe, but it can be safer: Trend Micro
Cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) are already secure, though Trend Micro would like to make them safer.
View ArticleRiverbed teases with free SteelStore offering
Riverbed announced today that customers can now use the virtual edition of the company's SteelStore storage appliance for free, bundling the product with six months of Amazon S3 cloud storage (at 8TB...
View ArticleAWS readies for major reboot
Amazon Web Services will be updating a substantial number of its Cloud servers, and has asked customers to re-launch their instances in the coming days, according to AWS consultants
View ArticleHow Amazon's cloud solved the "perfect storm" in networking
LAS VEGAS - Amazon Web Services operates at huge scale - in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant the research firm estimated AWS's capacity at five times larger than the company's next 14 competitors combined.
View ArticleMicrosoft and IBM keep the pressure on Amazon's cloud
Until further notice, Amazon Web Services is the reigning public IaaS cloud leader. But deep-pocketed companies Microsoft and IBM are keeping the pressure on AWS with a flurry of announcements beefing...
View ArticleMYOB dives into mid-market cloud
MYOB is moving deeper into the mid-market with the release Wednesday of its cloud-based ERP software, MYOB Advanced.
View ArticleIn Pictures: Amazon Web Services Sydney Summit
Billed as Australia's largest Cloud event, the Amazon Web Services Summit was held at a variety of venues including the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Cricket Ground and Bavarian Bier Cafe.
View ArticleAmazon snaps up Elemental to boost video on AWS
Amazon will acquire Elemental Technologies in a bid to enrich the video capabilities of its AWS cloud service, the company announced Thursday.
View ArticleAWS casts a ray of strong sunshine on Amazon's profitability
Much of Amazon's sunny earnings report for the third quarter of 2015 can be traced back to its Web Services Cloud division.
View ArticleAmazon Web Service exec on competing with Google and Microsoft
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the IaaS cloud market with Google and Microsoft both making big pushes to unseat Amazon Web Services. We caught up with Amazon’s Cloud Strategy GM Matt Wood to...
View ArticleStorm hits Amazon's Sydney cloud services
An outage of a swathe of Amazon's cloud services in its Sydney region hit Australian businesses today.
View ArticleSamsung's Joyent buy is a swipe at AWS and Microsoft Azure
The Internet of Things is as much about computing as it is about the things themselves, and that's why Samsung Electronics is buying Joyent.
View ArticleAWS, Microsoft cloud win US government security approval
Three vendors, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, have won a key U.S. government authorization that will allow federal agencies to put highly sensitive data on the cloud-computing services.
View ArticleWhy Dropbox left Amazon's cloud and built its own from scratch
One in two Australian Internet users in Australia use Dropbox. Worldwide, more than 1.2 billion files are saved to the cloud storage service every 24 hours. And until recently, all those files were...
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