Category Archives: Cloud

Send in the Clouds: Google finally entering the commodity computing marketplace

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Jake

Today at I/O, Google announced that it is entering the commodity computing market with a new offering called “Compute Engine,” which the company says will offer Linux virtual machines on a “Google scale,” suggesting that the firm may be targeting … Continue reading →

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Amazon announces RDS for SQL Server, but don’t get too excited yet

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Jake

If you’ve been waiting for Amazon to extend its relational data service to SQL Server as an easier way to harness database power and still reign in costs, we’re now halfway there. As of this morning, Amazon has extended RDS … Continue reading →

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