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Blog Post: Cloud Pricing War Begins

Created: 5 days ago by Krishnan Subramanian,...  Tags: AWS, AWS: CloudFront, AWS: EC2,...

Pricing war begins to heat up in the cloud space with Microsoft announcing pricing plans for Azure. AWS continues its innovative pricing model that Microsoft will look to counter. The pricing war will be sweet music to customers who stand to gain the most

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Article: A Fog Surrounds Amazon's 'Cloud Computing' Effort

Created: 6 days ago by Steve Rosenbush  Tags: AWS, AWS: CloudFront, AWS: EC2,...

Amazon reports that AWS traffic exceeded that of all Amazon websites combined by 30%. Financials do not break out AWS revenue.

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News: Makara smoothes the road to cloud computing

Created: 1 week ago by Anthony Ha, VentureBeat  Tags: Cloud Computing, Makara

Cloud startup Makara launches free beta: Deploys/monitors/scales Java and PHP apps in AWS or Rackspace clouds.

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News: AWS Announces Lower Pricing for Outbound Data Transfer

Created: 1 week ago by Amazon Web Services  Tags: AWS, AWS: CloudFront, AWS: EC2,...

Amazon Web Services announced a lower pricing for outbound data transfer by $0.02 across all of its services, usage tiers, and regions. This is yet another innovative pricing strategy by the company and will be effective from 01st February 2010.

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Blog Post: Windows Azure starts bringin' in the cash

Created: 1 week ago by Nick Eaton, seattlepi...  Tags: Azure, Cloud Computing, Microsoft

Microsoft launches Azure in 21 countries on 2nd Feb 2010 and will start charging for the services. Businesses will be charged only for the amount they use the service and can easily scale up by just paying more for more Azure service.

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Article: Google to drop IE6 support in cloud apps

Created: 1 week ago by Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK  Tags: Cloud Computing, Google...

Google announces its decision to drop support for IE6 and below in its cloud services from March 1st 2010. The company's blog has urged users to migrate to a higher or recent version of all available browsers.

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Article: Should You Move Your Small Business to the Cloud?

Created: 01/30/2010 by James A. Martin,...  Tags: Cloud Computing

This article provides valuable pointers for small companies to enable them to think and decide when to move to cloud computing. The author though urges all companies to try out the technology and then make informed decisions.

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Blog Post: When to Apply Cloud Computing

Created: 01/29/2010 by Michael Vizard,...  Tags: Cloud Computing

Cloud IT Management Advisory Service of Unisys comes up with a few guidelines to determine when to opt for cloud. Guideline lists workloads like Numerical processing intensive, Event-driven, I/O-intensive and high concurrency/high throughput applications.

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Article: Payload descriptor for cloud computing: An update

Created: 01/28/2010 by James Urquhart, CNET  Tags: Cloud Computing, PaaS

James Urquhart describes "pCard" standard as a payload descriptor for deploying software to the cloud.

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Presentation: Oracle Marketing Begins to Embrace Cloud

Created: 01/27/2010 by Oracle  Tags: Cloud Computing, Hype, Public...

Oracle's marketing is finally beginning to embrace "cloud". Plans to offer Oracle Cloud Office, an online version of Sun's OpenOffice. This announcement comes as a complete reversal to the company’s earlier stand on cloud computing.

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