Amazon used it’s EC2 cloud service to build a 10,000-core cluster, which has made the list of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers. This wasn’t a first for the company–Amazon has already built a top supercomputer that lives in the cloud. The new computer runs an HPC-optimized application and a batch scheduling technology. The 10,000 cores [...]

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A new service called Business Productivity Online Suite Federal was implemented for the Federal Government by Microsoft. The goal of the project was to achieve better security than the traditional cloud infrastructure by Microsoft such as fingerprinting as part of background checks and biometric access control. This cloud service by Microsoft is becoming an attractive [...]

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Cisco, EMC, and VMW have formed a partnership to create corporate-focused product called V-Block. Essentially the partnership will sell and provide maintenance for a new integrated data center that uses the capabilities of the three companies combined. The cloud infrastructure for the product will be built by all three companies. (Background information: EMC owns almost [...]

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One of the largest web hosting companies just removed data transfer quotas from their hosting packages. 1 & 1 Internet serves 9 million customers has been in what has been termed an “arms race” for market share.

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