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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Did Jeff Bezos choose that name to symbolise the largest bookstore in the world or did he realise that he would one day create an enterprise cloud service that was as large and complex as the river basin? After spending some time with his enterprise infrastructure service, I think he saw this coming.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Joyent's very smart SmartOS proves that some cloud servers are better than others
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Friday, October 12, 2012
HP challenges Amazon and Google with an OpenStack-based IaaS cloud that blends openness and portability with nice proprietary extras and welcome hand-holding.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Google took its sweet time entering this corner of the cloud. While Amazon, Rackspace, and others started off with pay-as-you-go Linux boxes and other "infrastructure" services, Google began with the Google App Engine, a nice stack of Python that held your hand and did much of the work for you.
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Monday, June 27, 2011
A clever if somewhat controversial social experiment, Bitcoin sets out to be an internet-only currency.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
There's "the cloud" and then there's Windows Azure.
We tested the available production level features in Microsoft's platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, and found that Azure is similar in many ways to what already exists in the cloud sky. But there are some key differences. Azure is homogeneously Windows-based. And big chunks of Azure are still in beta or "customer technology preview."
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Once again, reporter AJ Glasser places her taste buds on the line in the name of discovery. This week's challenge at the local 7-Eleven is the FarmVille-themed Goji Berry Cherry Slurpee. A match made in flavour heaven, or a crash-and-burn sugar rush waiting to happen?
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Google got a lot more musical this week, when it unveiled a new integrated music feature that lets you play full songs and limited previews in your search results. Here's our review of Google Music Search.
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Monday, August 8, 2005
Connexion puts Wi-Fi on scheduled planes. How realistic is it as a working tool?
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003
A RAID failure could be the ultimate catastrophe but CBL Data Recovery is an effective, but expensive, way of ensuring business continuity.
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A shootout between this spring's BYOD favourite the Samsung Galaxy S4 Android phone and the best BlackBerry yet, the BlackBerry Z10. read more...
Dell XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, is supposed to be a laptop/tablet hybrid, but it's clutching at straws when claiming to be a tablet. Think of this more as a decent laptop, that can sort of be used as a tablet. read more...
A 10.1in tablet running Windows 8 and aimed at business users the ElitePad is smart and stylish. Here's our HP ElitePad 900 review. read more...
Cool styling combined with power make the 2Big NAS a great, SME-friendly choice for network storage. read more...
It’s a record-breaker! And that’s official. read more...
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