Amazon boosts power of rentable cloud compute and cuts prices
Amazon has bulked up the capabilities of its standard range of rentable servers and also cut prices in two of its key US datacentre regions.
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AMD takes ARMs against the sea of Intel
After years of cutbacks, changes at the top and troubles with its foundry partners, AMD has launched a RISCy plan to use ARM chips to take on Intel.
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In the short term, ARM chips will continue to have a low-power advantage over processors from x86 chipmakers like Intel and AMD, but eventually this advantage will disappear, according to AMD.
Google App Engine has a Friday fail
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Calxeda lays out 64-bit ARM server strategy
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Facebook shuns OEMs in favour of homebrew servers at flagship Swedish datacentre
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Rise of the cloud spells gloom for enterprise IT vendors
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Amazon's compute cloud has a networking hiccup
Connectivity problems on Amazon's EC2 cloud in its main datacentre region have caused problems for some customers.
Cloud outages: Why one status page is better than many
The need for a clear picture of cloud outages is more important than ever, given more businesses are using multiple clouds for sites and software. But most dashboards are basic, at best.