Amazon Web Services personalizes CloudFront Web hosting service
By Peter Sayer | IDG News Service Amazon Web Services has extended its CloudFront Web hosting service to include dynamic content that can be personalized for each visitor. Websites already using CloudFront to host or cache static page elements can now also use it to serve up dynamic elements that are personalized for each user from servers within AWS’s EC2 calculate cloud, the company stated Monday. Pricing is the same as for static data, starting at $0.12/GB (or $0.02/GB after ...
Samsung purchases US Spotify clone, hopes to bruise Apple’s eco-system
You don‘t have to be a genius to know that mSpot, which has just been purchased by Samsung Electronics in the US, is going to go through both a transformation and a large international upsurge in usage, if it has, or can get, international music rights. Samsung has been speaking about a rival to iTunes for some years, ever since Apple decided, at the last minute, to purchase flash memory for iPods from the entire NAND flash market (in 2004) ...
Hard time: 10 tech CEOs sent to the slammer
Capture-Enabled Business Process Management Organizations this day must deal with a vast amount of incoming information from many different sources. Efficient, automated business processes are critical to managing it, improving productivity and serving customer needs. But getting there can be a challenge. Each step may contain internally and externally generated information, combined with human interactions and decisions that can cause processing delays, introduce potential for error and pose a compliance risk.
Lessons for HP box jockeys on the Amazon warpath
You might think the hard work for Hewlett-Packard is done, after it came from behind to build its own Amazon-style cloud so quickly. But the difficult part – taking on Amazon and winning with open source – lies ahead. The world’s biggest PC maker lifted the lid yesterday on the biggest change to its business in recent history. The HP Cloud Compute free beta ended on Thursday with a rash of 40 partners announcing that they are all now available ...
Ten… Ultrabooks
It took a tiny while for the production lines to get going, but the first few months of 2012 have seen super-slim Ultrabooks completely outnumbering every other type of desktop or laptop PC coming our way. Intel’s tight definition of the Ultrabook category means that there are certain things you can more or less take for allowed – minimum of 5hr battery life, maximum thickness of 18mm for 13in screen models and, of course, a second gen Intel Core processor. ...
CloudStack, OpenStack lure supporters, one by one
In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model. This week for example Zenoss, which makes software that grants enterprises to monitor and control data center functions, rolled out support for CloudStack in its product. Floyd Strimling, cloud technical evangelist for Zenoss, states the company has supported CloudStack based on customer feedback.
Facebook co-founder renounces US citizenship pre-IPO
Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook, has abandoned his American citizenship ahead of the social networking company’s possibly oversubscribed IPO in May. “Eduardo recently found it more practical to become a resident of Singapore since he plans to live there for an indefinite period of time,” his spokesman Tom Goodman told Bloomberg. Brazilian-born Saverin made the initial investment of $1,000 in Facebook when he and Zuckerberg were students together at Harvard, in exchange for 34 per cent of the company.
Report: Microsoft preps Windows 8 upgrade deal for early June debut
Microsoft will kick off a Windows 8 upgrade program for buyers of Windows 7 PCs in early June, according to a report. But unlike past deals, this one may come with a price tag. [ Windows 8 is coming, and InfoWorld can help you get ready with the Windows 8 Deep Dive PDF special report, which explains Microsoft’s bold new direction for Windows, the new Metro interface for tablet and desktop apps, the transition from Windows 7, and more.
SpaceX and Bigelow sign deal for inflatable space stations in orbit
SpaceX has signed a partnership deal with Bigelow Aerospace (BA) to offer a taxi service to and from the inflatable habitats BA intends to put into orbit. A SpaceX representative told El Reg that it anticipate to be ready for manned flight by 2015, and commercial services would begin shortly afterwards. Bigelow is partnering with SpaceX to work with its BA 330 module, an inflatable habitat based on NASA technology that can hold around six astronauts in relative comfort. The ...
Egenera runs virty tools on IBM BladeCenters
Egenera, the virtualized server infrastructure pioneer, has certified its PAN Manager control freakery to run on IBM’s BladeCenter blade servers. With the certification on Big Blue’s blades, Egenera now supports the major suppliers of X86-based blade servers – that is Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Dell – as well as Fujitsu – which has a significant presence in Continental Europe and Japan with its own blades. The company took the wraps off its latest PAN Manager 7.2 release back in March, which ...
