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Will Capgemini convince enterprises to trust cloud?

Large tech vendors such as Sun Microsystems and Red Hat, small ones like Elastra and RightScale, and even consultancy Capgemini are all clamoring to help big businesses get on Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud offering, or EC2.

| Analysis | SaaS | 12/18/08 at 4:45 pm |


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Amazon extends EC2 cloud platform to Europe

Amazon has extended its Elastic Compute Cloud to Europe, a move that should give customers there better performance.

| News | SaaS | 12/10/08 at 1:37 pm |


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Amazon to offer volume discounts for S3

Amazon's AWS cloud computing subsidiary will institute a new tiered pricing structure for its hosted storage service that includes price cuts for high-volume customers.

| News | SaaS | Storage | 10/09/08 at 3:04 pm |


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Amazon's EC2 plays nice with Windows

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server.

| News | SaaS | 10/01/08 at 7:35 pm |


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