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Which Cloud hosting partner is most likely to win your business?
Which tech giant is most likely to win significant Cloud hosting projects? Amazon Web Services? Microsoft? IBM?
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HP fights back as public Cloud exit rumours gather pace
“We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. It turns out that it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head."
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An inside look into VMware's new hybrid Cloud strategy
During the past week VMware has been making power play moves in the Cloud computing market to position its offering as the premier enterprise hybrid Cloud computing platform. As it does so, however, analysts question how well the grand plan VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has put together stacks up with heavyweights of the cloud computing market, most specifically Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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INSIGHT: Hyperscale public Clouds: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
“Bigger players in the market are less willing to concede defeat to AWS and Azure. Such is the case with VMware and Google."
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Gartner's Cloud showdown: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure
Gartner IaaS research director, Kyle Hilgendorf, says one of the most common questions he gets from enterprise customers looking to go to the Cloud is: AWS or Azure?
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Cloud giants do battle backed by distinctly different partner networks
When evaluating the marketplaces of the big three public IaaS cloud providers - Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft - AWS stands out in terms of the maturity of its platform for partners to offer products and services on top of its cloud. But Microsoft, too, has a formidable partner program that could rival Amazon's in the future, analysts predict.
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Here's why Amazon drones may never land at your door
Amazon's ambitious plan to use flying drones to deliver packages is far-fetched, but not just because of technology limitations or air traffic regulations. Amazon's fulfillment center network, as it stands now, is too limited to serve even a tiny fraction of the U.S. in the method described by CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Amazon: New analytics tool can scrutinise massive amounts of data
Amazon Web Services this week rolled out a new cloud-based data analytics tool named Kenesis, which can analyze massive amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour.
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Specs showdown: iPad mini vs. Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire HDX
Prepare your wallets, mortgage your house, and start looking for odd jobs around the neighborhood, because Apple's new iPad mini with Retina display looks to be one of the must-have gadgets of the year. By combining a small frame with a faster processor and a better screen, Apple's taken everything we loved about the original Mini and pumped it up a few notches to keep the tablet competitive against the Android tablets slowly invading its turf. We've already extensively compared two such tablets--Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX and Google's new Nexus 7--but it's time to throw the iPad Mini into the fight and see how it fares against these two 7-inch juggernauts when it comes to specs, price, and ecosystem.
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2012: The year in quotes
Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.
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Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google
It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.
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NEWS FOCUS: Will tablets soon be free?
The price of touch tablets used to make sense. Apple's iPad has cost between $499 and $829 since it first shipped a year and a half ago. And for a while, competitors all hovered around that price.
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Apple iPad vs Kindle DX: Which is better for education?
If the iPad doesn't succeed as a consumer electronics device--its initial target market--it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.
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Amazon's Kindle for PC app: 10 things to know
Amazon's extending its electronic bookstore onto your desktop. The company announced plans for a Kindle for PC desktop application at Microsoft's Windows 7 launch event Thursday.
