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• Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 February, 2012 01:29

  Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

• Is Amazon ready to set up shop in Australia?

  By Patrick Budmar | 23 January, 2012 08:09

  Investment bank, Morgan Stanley, has tipped the online store to expand its business to Australia

• Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston Enterprise OS

  By Colin Neagle | 21 January, 2012 09:28

  Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party.

• Check Point supports cloud security for Amazon Web Services

  By Tim Greene | 05 January, 2012 04:28

  Check Point and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to enable Check Point Security Gateway functionality to boost cloud security for business assets.

• Actual Kindle Sales Figures: More Than 3 Million Sold So Far

  By Jared Newman | 16 December, 2011 11:42

  Breaking a tradition of sales figure secrecy, Amazon announced that it has sold more than 1 million Kindles per week over the last three weeks.

• Kindle Fire will grab half of the Android tablet market: analyst

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 07 December, 2011 05:13

  Amazon's Kindle Fire will grab 50 percent of Android tablet sales in 2012, building on its success from this year, according to an investment analyst.

• Kindle Fire gets knocked on usability

  By Jared Newman | 07 December, 2011 06:27

  Amazon's Kindle Fire "offers a disappointingly poor user experience," according to an expert on usability.

• Analysis: Is Kindle Fire already losing its spark?

  By Eric Mack | 19 November, 2011 03:44

  After months of advance hype, some of the shine is coming off the Kindle Fire now that the 7-inch tablet is finally in the hands of real users. The $199 slate has plenty of satisfied customers to be sure, but since consumers have had a few days to play with it and subject it to the real world, some flaws and cut corners in design are becoming more apparent.

• NEWS FOCUS: Will tablets soon be free?

  By Mike Elgan | 06 September, 2011 10:53

  The price of touch tablets used to make sense. Apple's iPad has cost between $499 and $829 since it first shipped a year and a half ago. And for a while, competitors all hovered around that price.

• Apple iPad vs Kindle DX: Which is better for education?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 02 February, 2010 01:31

  If the iPad doesn't succeed as a consumer electronics device--its initial target market--it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.

• Amazon's Kindle for PC app: 10 things to know

  By JR Raphael | 23 October, 2009 09:12

  Amazon's extending its electronic bookstore onto your desktop. The company announced plans for a Kindle for PC desktop application at Microsoft's Windows 7 launch event Thursday.

• Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

  By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

  There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

• Google's move into e-books could be explosive

  By Matt Hamblen | 02 June, 2009 08:16

  E-books may have been a niche technology so far, but Google Inc.'s entry into the market could burst the online business wide open.