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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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Griffin Capital Buys AT&T Wireless Data Center
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012)
... MSA’s in the country, fueled by the success of a number of technology-oriented companies including Amazon and Expedia.” Excalante called the AT&T Wireless property “a one-of-a-kind telecommunications...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com
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A New Net
Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking
...isticated. Yet today, even with seemingly cost-effective cloud services available from the likes of Amazon, most companies still choose to operate their own computing resources—whether for corporate e-mail ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Forrester Research Google
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 4
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers
...rs, significantly expanding the type of workloads that can run on the company’s low-energy servers. Amazon: 762 Billion Objects Stored on S3 Cloud – How fast is Amazon Web Services growing? The number of objects stored on the company’s S3 cloud storage service triple...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Data Center Knowledge Facebook
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5 Reasons to Own Your Cloud
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 2 2012) Cloud Computing
...ervices for everything from block storage to database or virtual server platforms. (Think Google or Amazon Web Services). + Consumer cloud examples like the highly popular iCloud. You need to look at the ap... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Data Center Knowledge
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Will our plugged-in planet have a green or black future?
Explore MiamiHerald.com (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing
... also feel the tug of a powerful economic force. Whether it's "Combat Arms" or "World of Warcraft," Amazon or Google, the companies that operate data centers face strong incentives to save energy. Electrici...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Carnegie Mellon University
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Amazon: 762 Billion Objects Stored on S3 Cloud
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 31 2012) Cloud Computing , Storage
... operations, but it periodically shares some numbers about the scale of its operations. How fast is Amazon Web Services growing? The number of objects stored on the company’s S3 cloud storage service triple...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com
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Sumo Logic drops cloak, picks up cash to take on Splunk
Explore GigaOM (Jan 31 2012) Cloud Computing
...and Ooyala, for a few months. Roblox, the online gaming company, integrates Sumo’s service into the Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) it uses to run its business. These “instrumented” AMIs give Roblox visibility...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com
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Web Host Interoute Launches Virtual Data Center Infrastructure as a Service
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 26 2012) Cloud Computing
...ification as well as ISO 27001 and PCI DSS compliance. “With Virtual Data Centre we are taking what Amazon has done in the world of public cloud computing and making it fit for all enterprise needs, either ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Europe Netherlands
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AWS Storage Gateway Connects On-Premise Appliances to the Cloud
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 25 2012) Cloud Computing , Storage
...cloud products more accessible to users currently dealing entirely (or mostly) with on-premise IT.
Amazon says the new AWS Storage Gateway service enables data stored in a customer’s data center to be back...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com
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A CTO’s take on cloud
Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing
...and redundancy, although users will have to pay for it, he said. The bottom line? Glitches and all, Amazon is the incumbent public cloud power and will stay that way, he said. 4: OpenStack as big-time cloud...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Cisco IBM
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Will our plugged-in planet have a green or black future?
Explore http://www.kansascity.com (Jan 24 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing
...also feel the tug of a powerful economic force. Whether its Combat Arms or World of Warcraft, Amazon or Google, the companies that operate data centers face strong incentives to save energy. Electrici...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Carnegie Mellon University
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Europe Weighs a Tough Law on Online Privacy and User Data
Explore The New York Times (Jan 23 2012)
SAN FRANCISCO — Europe is considering a sweeping new law that would force Internet companies like Amazon.com and Facebook to obtain explicit consent from consumers about the use of their personal data, delete...
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Comment Mentions: The New York Times Amazon.com Europe
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Intel’s next big wireless play: It’s not smartphones
Explore GigaOM (Jan 23 2012) Networking
...d antennas at the cell site. The Cloud-Radio Access Network (Cloud-RAN) isn’t the public cloud of Amazon Web Services. Rather it’s a private cloud run by each operator in local data centers, but the prin...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Intel IBM
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Five Cloud Computing Services Experts to Watch, Jan. 20
Explore TalkinCloud (Jan 20 2012) Cloud Computing
...ers with application performance management and web monitoring. Initial New Relic partners include Amazon Web Services, Engine Yard, Go Grid, Rackspace and several other major cloud services providers. ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Uptime Institute CA
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Cloud Firm Amazon Web Services Launches NoSQL Database Service
Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 18 2012) Cloud Computing
...ales to enterprise needs, and is designed for rapid performance no matter the size of the database. Amazon DynamoDB is already in use by many teams and products within Amazon, including the Amazon.com advertising platform, Amazon Cloud Drive, IMDb, and Kindle.” DynamoDB stores data on SSDs and replications it across multiple ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com
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