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Why Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

I am sure we have all wondered why Amazon is in the utility computing business. Kindle, I can understand. AWS, I am not so sure. After all, Amazon is a retailer. An Internet pioneer but it is still in retail business. Retail business in general are very low margins business. So ...

Short note - Interesting battle in UK? Can the clouds carry this to other places?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

There is interesting battle between ISPs and BBC on who pays for the extra bandwidth used by BBC's iPlayer which serves up video content. Can the ISPs in US do the same for content on Youtube or video google where you have watched the laughing baby thousands of times, ...

Massive Data Centers, at the center of the clouds

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Blue Cloud from IBM, Microsoft rumored to make heavy investment data centers, EMC buys Pi to strengthen its data center operations, BMC answers that by acquiring Bladelogic, HP has opsware and finally has ability to invest in software and services, Dell has a built to order data center business, and ...