Amazon Web Services’ partner network has grown to more than 4,000 members, up from less than 1,000 a year ago — a key step for the company as it tries to expand its cloud-computing customer base beyond startups to more large companies. That’s the word from Reuters this morning in a piece on the company’s… Read More…
Parallels announced today that it has received an investment of undisclosed size from Cisco, money that the Renton-based company will use to bolster its cloud services efforts. As part of the deal, Cisco and Parallels also agreed to expand their joint marketing efforts. More than 9,000 service providers already rely on Parallels to deliver applications… Read More…
What happened at Amazon Web Services to take down the Netflix streaming service for hours on Christmas Eve? It was a combination of human error and flawed access controls: An AWS developer was able to accidentally delete a key data set in the AWS Elastic Load Balancing Service, causing the disruption. That’s the word from AWS in… Read More…
The elves at Amazon.com are hard at work tonight trying to fix yet another outage at Amazon Web Services. The outage took down Netflix today, which means many can’t tune in to Love Actually, A Christmas Story or other holiday favorites. Netflix said it is working on the issues, trying to fix them alongside engineers… Read More…
At Tuesday’s Structure:Europe event, Amazon.com’s CTO Werner Vogels hinted that “there are things coming down the pipe you wouldn’t believe,” when asked about what’s in store for Amazon’s Web Services. GigaOM did a little speculating this morning into what Vogels could have been talking about, and some of the possibilities are pretty interesting. A few predictions:… Read More…
After receiving 600 applications, Microsoft this morning named 10 startups to participate in its Windows Azure Accelerator, a three-month program focused on creating new business apps and building new companies on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and related technologies. The accelerator is a partnership with TechStars, and a follow-up to the similar Kinect Accelerator program that… Read More…
The National Football League may not be making all the right calls on the field, but an agreement with a Seattle company to improve on-the-field concussion response seems like a step in the right direction for another troublesome issue. X2IMPACT, a privately-funded tech company that develops services to help manage brain injuries in contact sports,… Read More…
Geeks like us hear the words “cloud computing” almost every day, using it ourselves to explain a host of different online-based services. But how do folks in the heartland or other less tech-savvy places feel about cloud computing? Well, there’s still a ways to go in terms of grasping the concept, if a new survey… Read More…
Box CEO Aaron Levie is widely known for cracking jokes on Twitter. When Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringement, for example, he tweeted, “Facebook is probably as disappointed as Yahoo that their technology may in any way be similar.” But beyond the zingers, the 27-year-old Mercer Island High School grad also offers great insights into… Read More…
Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve has pulled in $3.5 million in new financing, including investments by Reed Elsevier Ventures and new investor Triage Ventures. Total funding in the 12-person startup, which moved to Seattle from Silicon Valley, now stands at just over $6 million. SpaceCurve has yet to start rolling out its service to customers, but… Read More…
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