Amazon Web Services is poised top $1 billion in cloud services revenue in 2012, according to a new report from research firm IDC that underscores the rise of cloud computing across the tech industry, and the increasing significance of AWS to the Seattle-based online retailer. Google’s cloud-based enterprise technology business should reach that milestone 18… Read More…
Here’s a surprising name on the new list of the world’s fastest supercomputers: Amazon Web Services. Looking to promote its latest offering in High Performance Computing — dubbed the Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large, or CC2 for short – the Seattle company’s cloud computing team has submitted its benchmark speed results to the keepers of the… Read More…
Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com are among the backers in a $10 million round for Yieldex, a New York-based company that helps online publishers increase revenue by providing inventory analysis, forecasting and pricing. New investors in the round include Triangle Peak Partners and Hearst Interactive Media, the digital arm of the New York publishing giant. Total… Read More…
It’s not just Kindles and tablets in the news from Amazon this morning. The Seattle company is also announcing a new web browser, dubbed Amazon Silk, that makes use of its Amazon Web Services cloud computing infrastructure in a bid for a more efficient browsing experience under the hood. Here’s an excerpt from an Amazon… Read More…
Some people tell great stories about camping out for the latest gadgets, but when your life experience includes time in the Peace Corps in West Africa, your strongest memories of waiting in line are very different. That’s just one of the characteristics that distinguishes our latest Geek of the Week. Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec grew up… Read More…
Remember those folks who once declared that Amazon was “toast?” Well, where are they now? Amazon.com’s stock has surged above $223 per share this week, giving the iconic Seattle online retailer a whopping market value of $101 billion. The company’s rise over the past decade has been nothing short of remarkable. Many analysts thought Amazon… Read More…
Seems like Amazon.com’s data center in Northern Virginia just can’t catch a break lately. And now here comes Hurricane Irene. Officials at the Amazon Web Services facility — a key piece of infrastructure for many high-profile websites, say in an online message to their customers that they’re “closely monitoring Hurricane Irene and making all possible preparations, e.g…. Read More…
Cheezburger has added to its line-up of weird and wacky sites. Introducing “Bronies.” Men and boys who love the animated series “My Little Pony.” Aviation High School – where the next generation of aerospace geeks will be trained –broke ground today on a new $43.5 million campus next to the Museum of Flight. The school, the first of… Read More…
Amazon Web Services this morning made a new pitch for running web apps on its cloud computing platform, introducing a feature called ElastiCache that promises to improve the performance of web apps such as social networks, games and media-sharing sites. In basic terms, the system uses server infrastructure more efficiently to help web apps keep key… Read More…
I am huge fan of Downfall, a classic war film that depicts Adolf Hitler’s last days in Berlin. But even better than the film are the number of parodies that have arisen around the Oscar-nominated film. And here’s one that you’ve got to see. The fictional Hitler (played by Bruno Ganz in the 2004 German… Read More…
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