IT's new battlegrounds in the cloud revolution
As the cloud market matures, effects of scale lock the industry into dependence on a few large companies. In this latest industrial revolution, new entrants will face a tough fight.
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Amazon links mainstay S3 storage to its low-cost Glacier
The free upgrade means companies can set up policies to automatically migrate data from the high-cost easily accessible S3 service into the low-cost long-term Glacier storage according to their own policies.
Losers in the cloud revolution
Some companies stand to benefit from the rise of the cloud and others stand to lose — ZDNet looks at the big names with the most to lose.
Winners in the cloud revolution
Some companies stand to benefit from the rise of the cloud and others stand to lose. ZDNet picks the IT winners.
SDN: Experimental networking tech gets a commercial boost
The software-defined networking suite from Big Switch Networks gives admins access to OpenFlow-based technology for increasing network efficiency and is backed by Microsoft, Citrix and other major IT companies.
Amazon Web Services puts down roots in Australia
Amazon has opened up a datacentre hub in Australia, ticking off another continent in the cloud company’s journey of global expansion.
Amazon slashes cloud database prices
Amazon has dramatically cut the price of renting cloud database servers from its US datacentres while increasing their capability.
Telefonica spins up Joyent cloud with Amazon-beating guarantee
The infrastructure-as-a-service cloud uses technology from Node.js-steward Joyent to offer an uptime service-level agreement that is significantly better than that of AWS, Microsoft and Google.
Not so hARMless: ARM software development gets a major boost
Facebook, HP, Samsung and others are looking to jump-start development of software on ARM processors and in doing so are embarking on a risky, high-stakes road.
Amazon doubles data rate of EBS storage
Shifting data between servers and Elastic Block Store volumes faster should mean applications will be more responsive.