Rackspace launches NoMoreServers.com
Rackspace is one of the most well known name in the hosting business.
The company has launched a new online initiative named NoMoreServers.com to showcase the emerging Computing-as-a-Service model.
Incidentally, they had launched a similar campaign named No Software a few years ago to showcase their Software as a Service platform.
Cloud computing [...]
Amazon announces the availability of virtual private cloud
Amazon continues to expand their web services. The company is now providing virtual private cloud.
Amazon said that virtual private cloud provides a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud.
As of now Amazon VPC can integrate with an Amazon EC2 network. They [...]
Heroku launches its own cloud service for Ruby
Heroku is all set to take on Google by offering its own cloud service for Ruby applications.
This service would be somewhat similar to Google App Engine which also provides provisionless Web hosting.
Heroku is using the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services for their platform.
The company said [...]
Google App Engine updated with more powers and features
Google has updated their App Engine platform to make it more capable.
Google representative Rajen Sheth said in a statement that they want to make it possible for companies to host software applications in Google’s data centers.
This can be made possible while allowing the companies to [...]
Amazon Elastic MapReduce announced
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Amazon has announced yet another addition to their cloud computing range of services.
The latest product is named Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
Amazon spoke about this new offering:
Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web [...]
Amazon Web Services now works with IBM applications
Amazon has announced that they are now supporting a range of IBM applications on Amazon Web Services.
Users can now run a variety of IBM application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service.
Amazon adds that the users can now bring their own IBM licenses to Amazon [...]
Microsoft loses James Hamilton to Amazon
James Hamilton is a a former data-center futures architect at Microsoft. He has now left the software giant to join Amazon.
He would now become a vice president distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services.
Amazon has become one of the leading players in the cloud computing services market. Microsoft is a [...]
Force.com now connected to Google App Engine
Salesforce.com has announced that they are now connecting their Force.com development platform with Google App Engine.
This arrangement is similar to how they connected their services to Amazon Web Services.
Google App Engine however is still in testing phase as it enables the web developers to easily build scalable [...]
Salesforce collaborates with Facebook and Amazon
Salesforce.com has announced partnerships with both Facebook and Amazon.
They are now going to link up their Force.com hosted applications platform with Facebook social network and Amazon web services.
Facebook deal would allow customers of Salesforce to build applications on its Force.com platform that appear natively inside Facebook.
The deal with Amazon would [...]
