Would an Amazon-ruled cloud service space be a positive thing?
Amazon is going to do to enterprise cloud companies exactly what it did to bookstores. This line, which was the headline in this week’s Searchlight also caught Karen Goulart’s attention. With the Amazon cloud positioned as a big winner by SMBs as well as CIOs at more established enterprises, do you think an Amazon-ruled cloud [...]

Answer Question   |  May 17, 2013  1:54 PM
Amazon, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services

Why is Apple’s tablet market share falling?
IDC’s latest tablet report showed Apple’s commanding lead has fallen from 59.7% to 50.4% in the last year with Samsung and Amazon jumping up considerably. Why is Apple’s tablet market share falling? Will the iPad mini be able to halt its slide?

Answer Question   |  November 29, 2012  9:50 PM
Amazon, Apple, samsung, Tablets

Open IT Forum: What’s your weapon of choice for personal or enterprise storage?
What’s your weapon of choice for personal or enterprise storage? Do you have a Dropbox, Box.net, or Mozy account? Let us know about your experience with these services: How did it affect your usage when these services changed their pricing models? How important is customer service and encryption?   Share your opinion and we’ll share [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2011  12:48 PM
Amazon, Box.net, Cloud storage, Dropbox, Enterprise content management, Mozy, Open IT Forum, Storage

Amazon EC2 environment for my data/cloud security
According to the Amazon EC2 environment details, there’s a lot flexibility to create my instance with specific configurations, boot as many as I want, stop and secure data in the boot partition, etc. But what if I wanted to develop something for a month, subscribed to EC2, developed in pay per use model: How secure [...]

Answer Question   |  December 30, 2011  8:40 PM
Amazon, Amazon EC2, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Development Environments

Adding company affiliate code to the Amazon URL
Is this doable and legal? We want anyone that uses amazon.com from our company computers to have our company affiliate code added to the url. We would want to do this via our DNS servers which are Windows 2003. Is this possible? Is it a violation of the Amazon TOC or laws?

Answer Question   |  August 31, 2010  2:27 PM
Amazon, DNS server, URL, URL Encoding, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Group Policy

How does Amazon.com use database management systems?
How does Amazon.com use database management systems?

Answer Question   |  June 20, 2010  3:21 AM
Amazon, Database Management Systems, DBMS, RDBMS, Relational database management systems