Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 17 Sep 2011
The Amazon Cloud has now classed as being FISMA certified. FISMA is an acronym for Federal Information Security Management Act. FISMA sets security requirements for federal IT systems. and is a required certification for US federal government projects. This is the third set of certifications Amazon has recently announced coming on top of VPC ISO [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 19 Feb 2011
In a move that has put it into direct competition with competitors such as RackSpace. Amazon has announced that you can now host your website using an Amazon S3 Account. With these new features, Amazon S3 now provides a simple and inexpensive way to host your website in one place at a very cheap price. [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 18 Jan 2011
As storing data in the cloud becomes increasingly more normal users will increasingly find themselves in the position of needing to access different types of data regularly. To this end we are starting to see a new breed of applications and services which themselves provide a service that interacts with data stored on the cloud. [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 16 Dec 2010
I don’t think anyone would argue that Amazon S3 is the big bear of the Cloud market, both on the virtual cloud infrastructure and the cloud storage side of things. Amazon S3 has more than 102 billion objects stored on it as of March 2010. As befits a dominant player the interface that Amazon exposes [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 07 Dec 2010
New York & London, December 7, 2010 – GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments, has provided Yazino, a massively multiplayer online casino, the application infrastructure used to build the first cloud-based, social casino platform. Yazino is using GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) to scale on demand [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 17 Nov 2010
As well as being SAS 70 Type II-certified Amazon is now ISO 27001 certified. ISO/IEC 27001 formally outlines a management system that brings information security under management control, and mandates requirements that have to be met. Organisations that have adopted ISO/IEC 27001 may be formally audited to maintain compliance with the standard. As stated on [...]
Amazon Web Services admin on 19 May 2010
introduce a new storage option for Amazon S3 called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than the standard storage of Amazon S3. It provides a cost-effective solution for distributing or sharing content that is durably stored elsewhere, or for storing [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Apr 2010
Starting today, Asia Pacific-based businesses and global businesses with customers based in Asia Pacific can run their applications and workloads in AWS’s Singapore Region to reduce latency to end-users in Asia and to avoid the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with maintaining and operating their own infrastructure. The new Singapore Region launches with multiple availability zones [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and Grid and HPC admin on 15 Jan 2010
Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud. There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation job. The Grid Engine also [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 23 Oct 2009
a new report from analysts The 451 Group outlines the success to date that GigaSpaces has had in the Cloud Sector. The report talks about how GigaSpaces now has 76 customers using its software on cloud-computing platforms. This is up from 25 on Amazon’s EC2 in February. GigaSpaces have moved forward their cloud strategy in [...]
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