Some of the services are HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud CDN.
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It is one of the largest providers of public cloud compute capacity and rents out a large part of its data center capacity.
They must sell public cloud compute IaaS as a stand-alone service, without the requirement to bundle it with managed hosting, application development, application maintenance or other outsourcing.
There was another EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) outage in April 2011, which stemmed from EBS-related issues.
Amazon first introduced the public at large to the concept of IaaS in 2006, when the company launched its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
The time and resource intensive nature of this skillcraft is perfectly suited for the precision search and analytic capabilities of the modern compute cloud.
The Silk browser software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
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Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
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In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.
These next-generation products, which target ultra high-performance systems for military, wireline communications, cloud networking, and compute and storage applications, will enable breakthrough levels of performance and power efficiencies not otherwise possible.
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Last June, Google began ramping up its pursuit of Amazon by unveiling Google Compute Engine, a cloud-computing competitor to Amazon Web Services.
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The report acknowledges a range of benefits to conducting these massive compute projects in the cloud, but the economic benefits of using commercial cloud providers are left wanting.
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Apps are the user-facing and friendly part of the Promethean compute power that resides in the Cloud.
One biggie was the announcement that any and all companies looking for computing horsepower can jump on board its formerly-limited Google Compute Engine, part of the Google Cloud Platform.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
However, to me, Openness (and with it Broader adoption, private, hybrid of Public) about the Cloud starts with open Standards for APIs, reference architecture and hardware (Open Compute is a good example of that).
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Puppet Labs is the developer of Puppet, software that applies declarative programming to the task of system administration of compute, network, and storage infrastructure in traditional data centers or in the cloud.
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"Cloud computing has brought a sea change to the data center--dramatically altering the economics of compute by changing the workload and optimal characteristics of a server, " said Andrew Feldman, SeaMicro CEO, who will become general manager of AMD's newly created Data Center Server Solutions business.
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We talked about cloud computing and his vision for a hybrid model, the role that converged infrastructure and automation from the compute resources all the way to VM provisioning, Steve agreed that is what would ultimately be needed to enable private cloud.
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