December 5, 2012  1:26 PM

YouTube IT video of the week: Amazon AWS re:Invent



Posted by: Michael Tidmarsh
Amazon, AWS, YouTube IT Video of the Week

Last week, Amazon hosted AWS re:Invent, its first global and partner conference. It featured several sessions on different ways to prosper in the AWS cloud including cloud migration best practices and new AWS services. Check out this user video featuring CTO Dr. Werner Vogels and CEO Jeff Bezos...


September 24, 2012  1:43 PM

The New York Times tackles data center inefficiency (or, how fantasy football is killing the environment)



Posted by: Ben Rubenstein
Amazon, Cloud computing, Data Center, Green IT

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August 31, 2012  10:09 AM

Sword prices and Trojan horses: The week in IT quotes



Posted by: Ben Rubenstein
Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Cloud computing, IT Quotes, OpenStack, VMWare, VMworld 2012

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March 1, 2012  4:52 PM

Is Big Data poised to be Internet freedom’s biggest threat? Schneier thinks so



Posted by: Michael Morisy
Amazon, Google, Privacy, RSA, RSA 2012, Security

The biggest threat to Internet freedom isn't traditional "bad guys" like cyberterrorists and hacking groups, says Bruce Schneier, security researcher and author, but the slow, creeping advances of Big Data companies like Google and Amazon that are quietly...


April 28, 2011  10:07 AM

Amazon EC2 Outage Coverage: When will the darkened clouds clear?



Posted by: MelanieYarbrough
Amazon, Amazon EC2, Cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Service Outage

Last week's Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) outage has served as quite the scare and reality check for IT departments and CIOs across the country. The main lesson that seems to have been learned is


January 26, 2011  1:03 PM

Amazon Simple Email Service unleashed on bulk messaging



Posted by: Michael Morisy
Amazon, Cloud, E-mail, EC2

Amazon's cloud empire floated a little higher yesterday with the announcement that the web giant is


October 22, 2010  9:26 AM

How Amazon Web Services protects your data



Posted by: MelanieYarbrough
Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Cloud Computing in 2010, SaaS in 2010

It's true that the number of data breaches are decreasing. But as CEO of CyberRiskPartners Drew Bartkiewicz pointed out, the number of records compromised per breach is increasing. This observation seems to be the contributing factor to what Infosecurity refers to as a


December 1, 2009  1:47 PM

How was your Manic Cyber Monday?



Posted by: Michael Morisy
Amazon, Cyber Monday, Traffic

"Cyber Monday" has come and gone, but was it just another rough Monday for you or did your network face a deluge of "recreational" traffic? There's been a lot of debate...


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