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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Citrix donates Xen to Linux Foundation Citrix hopes Xen development will benefit from the input of a wider and more diverse group of contributors
Friday, November 23, 2012
Windows Server 2012 available on AWS Users can try it out as a micro-instance for a full year, Amazon says
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Open Text launches full-featured managed cloud The company said its new cloud, which incorporates multiple information management applications and services, will be the largest of its kind in the world
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Do customers share blame in Amazon outages? Not only should a cloud provider have a redundancy plan, says an infrastructure provider, so should its customers. This failure cost Amazon at least one customer 
Monday, June 18, 2012
Toronto firm does big data chemistry in the cloud 1DegreeBio is a database hosted on Amazon Web Services that lets scientific researchers search millions of antibodies through a simple search engine
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Amazon boosts Web Services security for government The company's GovCloud service now complies with an additional security regulation, opening the door to more government users
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Amazon enhances identity management, private cloud offerings Amazon Web Services will introduce new capabilities for enterprises on Thursday, including identity federation and support for private network connections to AWS
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Amazon eliminates inbound data fees for AWS Microsoft last week similarly announced its plans to cut inbound data fees to Azure. The moves could encourage some companies that may have been worried about the cost of transferring large amounts of data to move to the cloud
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Intel sees opportunity from Asian data centre boom The company's data centre business is growing by over 20 per cent in Asia. Jason Fedder, general manager of Intel’s Data Centre Group for Asia Pacific and China, said the growth could be ever faster over the next couple of years
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Trend Micro CTO talks Amazon outage, PlayStation hack How Trend Micro is thinking about cloud security and why its chief technology officer, Raimund Genes, thinks the damage of the Amazon and Sony security situations could have been less severe. The CTO was in Toronto on Wednesday for a cloud security user conference
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Amazon integrates iPhone, iPad, Android with cloud The company hopes to boost the use of its cloud-based services on mobile phones by offering two new software development kits. The possible applications for developers
Monday, November 15, 2010
Amazon takes advantage of GPUs in the cloud The company's Amazon Web Services offering can now run HPC apps faster if they are compatible with Nvidia's CUDA architecture. Amazon added a new Cluster GPU instance to the Elastic Compute Cloud platform
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Amazon offering EC2 access for free The offer of a “micro instance” of the service is for new customers only. Other no-charge services include SimpleDB tool, Simple Queue Service, Simple Notification Service
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Amazon Web Services adds PHP development kit The new kit should make it easier for users to develop PHP-based applications for its cloud, Amazon says
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Amazon improves management for its cloud database Administrators will be able to monitor performance using a free, browser-based tool. Plus, other new features
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Amazon improves reliability of its cloud database The new high-availability feature, Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ), automatically configures a standby copy of the database. But it doubles the price
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
NetSuite partners with Amazon cloud storage The partnership will allow NetSuite users to offload less crucial files through the new SuiteStorage connector to save money over the more costly Oracle database that NetSuite uses
Monday, March 29, 2010
Amazon CloudFront now has private streaming A new feature called private content lets CloudFront customers limit access to streamed content by IP address and date
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Amazon EC2 boosts memory, Windows support The new extra-large memory option will help customers perform advanced computation. In a move against Windows Azure, Amazon announces Windows support for its Reserved Instance offerings
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Oracle - Sun Microsystems merger resource centre ITWorldCanada traces the events that led to the Oracle-Sun merger and other developments involving the two companies
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