About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered inSeattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the internet sales revenue of runner up Staples, Inc. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an on-line bookstore but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD,music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,food, toys, etc. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
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Cloud Computing/Mobile Computing/Network Bandwidth, Green Data Centers and Telehousing
Explore Article All Posts (Sep 3 2010)
...working from home has resulted in a lot of Web surfing and video consumption. The good news is that Amazon, Google, and other big cloud providers are investing in green data center technology to host their ...
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HP Unveils Cloudstart to Speed Private Cloud Deployment
Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 30 2010)
... said. Clouds can be rolled out in a number of different ways: using a cloud service provider like Amazon, building one internally or using a mixture of the two. The latter is usually called a hybrid cloud...
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Red Hat Outlines Its Cloud Strategy
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 30 2010)
...of public and private clouds including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Amazon EC2, Windows Hyper-V and more through Red Hat’s cloud engine. “Our enterprise customers leverage the JB...
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Comparing the Cost of Cloud vs. Colocation
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 24 2010)
...is if you run highly-utilized servers, according to Vijay Gill, who recently ran a comparison using Amazon Web Services pricing as a benchmark. Gill is the Senior Manager of Production Network Engineering a...
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Born in the Cloud: AWS Start-up Challenge
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 19 2010)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued a call for entries to the fourth annual Start-Up Challenge, a contest...
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A Chip Start-Up Aims to Slay Intel
Explore Article dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com (Aug 16 2010)
...el’s server-chip business and offer companies, especially those with vast data centers like Google, Amazon.com, Facebook and Microsoft, enormous energy cost savings. Acknowledging the David vs. Goliath strug...
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Cloud Fears
Explore Article Linux (Aug 11 2010)
... cheer-leaders of the Cloud mantra. Then the arguably godfather role of cloud goes to Jeff Bezos of Amazon. His huge investment in Amazon data center with 30% utilization prompted him to seek new avenues of monetization. Thus came AWS (Amazon Web Services) and its component pieces such as S3, EC2, etc. In the new cloud lexicon, this can be ...
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Rackspace Boosts Cloud Revenue, Margins
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 10 2010)
...continues to offer the best window into the economics of cloud computing. Unlike its primary rival, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace provides detailed reporting on its cloud operations. And there was a lot to...
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Will Amazon Become The King of Web Hosting Too?
Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 9 2010)
Amazon’s web services (AWS) are on track to being a half-a-billion dollar business. They’re home to some o...
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Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010)
...d that point in announcing the company’s data center plans. Twitter previously used NTT America and Amazon Web Services to its infrastructure. “Importantly, having our own data center will give us the flexi...
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I built my datacenter in 5 minutes sticker
Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 18 2010)
... compete against a bunch of start-ups who are building data center capacity in 5 minutes leveraging Amazon's purchasing power? Sometimes it is speed of action that wins. Being able to quickly add and ...
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CloudSwitch Launches Enterprise Edition
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 1 2010)
...sily into VMware and Xen environments. Customers can move Windows and Linux virtual machines to the Amazon EC2 and Terremark clouds, and run their applications in the cloud using existing management and monitor...
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Capacity Planning at Internet Scale
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 25 2010)
...Zynga manages its infrastructure using a combination of its own data centers and servers running on Amazon Web Services’ EC2 service, which are managed by Rightscale. “We will continue to be balanced across...
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Hamilton: Pace of Innovation is Quickening
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 24 2010)
...ustry debates whether higher temperatures will affect the reliability of servers, James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services says some obvious test cases are being overlooked. “Game consoles are wild, multi-core...
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CloudSwitch Makes Going Cloud as Simple as Can Be
Explore Article GigaOM (Jun 23 2010)
... or Xen environments, and running on Windows or Linux, are transported to compatible public clouds (Amazon EC2 and Terremark vCloud Express, initially) via a Layer-2 network bridge. CloudSwitch Makes Going Clou...
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