Media Coverage
| Feb 13, 2013 |
Computer World UK: VFX studio opts for Amazon cloud to create scenes for Oscar-nominated filmAtomic Fiction is leading the way for Hollywood visual effects (VFX) studios that are looking to cut costs on production, whilst maintaining a high level of artistic quality, by rendering images in Amazon’s EC2 cloud. Computerworld UK spoke to Kevin Bailie, CEO and co-founder of Atomic Fiction, and Alex Schworer, the company’s lead developer, who recently worked with director Robert Zemeckis on the VFX for his Oscar nominated film, Flight. |
| Feb 07, 2013 |
Network World: Cycle Computing spins up 10,600 instances in Amazon's cloudThat's an estimated $44 million worth of compute power for the low, low price of $4,360 Network World - High performance cloud computing company Cycle Computing is no stranger to spinning up massive clusters of servers in Amazon's public cloud, but this week the company says it recently ran one of its largest jobs ever, one that used 10,598 multi-core instances. |
| Feb 06, 2013 |
La Jolla Light: Amazon Cloud helps advance molecular researchUnderstanding the interaction of proteins and enzymes is key to discovering and advancing treatments for diseases. Unfortunately, conventional light microscopes cannot clearly show objects as small as single molecules and electron microscopy cannot be effectively used with living cells. A mathematically based technique called Photoactivated Localization Microscopy (PALM) helps solve this problem, but it takes hours and often days to crunch all the numbers required to produce one usable image. |
| Feb 01, 2013 |
ZDNet: Amazon lowers AWS pricing again; M3 instances roll out globallyIn making Amazon Web Service (AWS) more powerful and less expensive, the retailed turned cloud giant said in a blog post this morning that it has lowered the on-demand pricing for EC2 instances by on average 10-20 percent. Amazon said that on-demand prices for EC2 instances in the M1, M2, M3 and C1 families have been lowered as of today, and prices for the transfer of data between AWS regions has also been reduced. |
| Jan 31, 2013 |
CRN: Amazon Web Services Picks The Top Tech StartupsAWS Global Start-Up Challenge Amazon Web Services' Global Start-Up Challenge, with more than 2,500 submissions from 85 countries, is one of the hottest contests on the planet for young tech companies seeking recognition. This week, AWS announced winners of the sixth annual event in the categories of Big Data and High Performance Computing, Business Applications, Consumer Applications and Gaming. |
| Jan 29, 2013 |
ZDNet: Amazon points EC2 at video transcodingAmazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a video transcoding service Elastic Transcoder, which adds an interesting service layer to its cloud infrastructure and pits it against a few of its own customers. AWS might have customers that sell transcoding services on EC2, but that did not stop it from launching a service that not only rivals its customers, but significantly undercuts their pricing. |
| Jan 28, 2013 |
InformationWeek: Amazon Startup Contest Winners Strut StuffThe setting was Dogpatch WineWorks in San Francisco, a site where customers produce their own barrels of wine. But a different kind of ferment gripped the venue Jan. 24 as 120 developers, bloggers and analysts gathered there to see which mobile application producers Amazon Web Services selected as winners of this year's Global Startup Challenge. |
| Jan 22, 2013 |
CloudPro: How Kempinski Hotels used cloud to improve staff efficiencyBy opting for cloud, Kempinski Hotels freed up its IT staff to drive efficiency from applications rather than running the infrastructure
Kempinski Hotels, Europe’s oldest luxury hotel management group, has a portfolio of more than 70 five-star properties in more than 30 countries. Like many hotel groups with such an extensive network and reach, its IT department is always looking to standardise across its properties and implement and develop effective systems that save costs, maximise staff productivity, and deliver high-quality service. |
| Jan 22, 2013 |
GigaOm: AWS beefs up cloud for super-fast data processingLatching onto the trend toward in-memory storage for real-time computing, Amazon Web Services has added a new type of virtual server. The new option — the 10th such available on the EC2 offering — is called the High-Memory Cluster Instance and includes 88 EC2 Compute Units of compute capacity (running on two Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors, two 120 GB solid-state drives of instance storage and 244 GB of RAM. |
| Jan 22, 2013 |
ZDNet: AWS adds EC2 instance for in-memory analyticsAmazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new service for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) suited to memory intensive analytics. |
| Jan 21, 2013 |
Computer World UK: National Rail to put website on AWS's cloudNational Rail has revealed that it has selected Amazon Web Services' public cloud as a hosting environment for its primary website – nationalrail.co.uk. The website is a popular service for rail travellers in the UK, which provides a rail journey planning service, live train information and detailed information about the rail industry, including service disruption and station facilities information. |
| Jan 15, 2013 |
Dr. Dobbs: Software Development in the Obama CampaignThe presidential reelection campaign for Obama broke new ground in 2012 by developing almost all of its software in-house. Previously, presidential campaigns had relied primarily on outside vendors for their software and operations. However, the president's team felt it needed to have faster access to the data it was generating and better control over how the campaign was run. It also wanted to write completely custom software for its volunteers in the field. So, about 18 months before the election, it started assembling a group of programmers to develop software for nearly every part of its operations: website, mailing list management, donations processing, canvassing, and field worker support. I recently had the opportunity to attend a panel of some of the campaign's lead developers and speak with them one on one. |
| Jan 15, 2013 |
InformationWeek: Obama's Developer Brain Trust: Inside The Big BattleFive tech leaders of the Obama for America team recently spoke about their efforts to re-elect the President. They described a culture clash, not unlike that often found inside businesses, between a free-wheeling group of nerds and their goal-oriented and buttoned-down masters determined to win an election. Both sides appeared satisfied with the results, but it took some jockeying and jostling with each other before they got to the win. |
| Jan 11, 2013 |
Computer Weekly: News International presses ahead on the cloud with AWSAdopting public cloud services almost two years ago has helped News International to save money on hardware expenditure and improve scalability, as well as enter into a lot of new digital channels such as iOS and Android markets quickly, thereby gaining a commercial advantage. |
| Jan 11, 2013 |
Dow Jones: Nasdaq Looks to Grow Cloud Business, in Diversification EffortAn explosion in the amount of data generated and stored by financial firms has Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) looking to the clouds. The exchange operator teamed up with Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) last year to start offering computer storage and processing power that customers can rent over a network, rather than buying their own servers. The push is one of many ways Nasdaq has sought to diversify from processing U.S. stock trades, a business that continues to shrink. But industry executives and analysts have cautioned the financial-services industry is a long way from fully embracing the cloud. |
| Jan 10, 2013 |
Talking Points Memo: How Amazon Teamed Up With Twitter On Its Human Search ArmyTwitter earlier this week revealed a surprising fact: It uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, an online labor marketplace where companies can farm out low-paying, low-skilled jobs to willing workers, to find the answers to Twitter search queries. |
| Jan 08, 2013 |
Silicon India: The Cloud AdvocateFounded in 2006, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), provides IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services, now commonly known as cloud computing. Having enabled traditional organizations like Shell, New York Times and several others to move towards cloud AWS is one of the biggest and most widely used cloud computing platforms. |
| Jan 06, 2013 |
Mail on Sunday: 'We can access all the capacity we need affordably': How the sky is the limit for small firms turning to cloud computingCloud computing has been the new buzzword for some time, with promises that it can help business owners revolutionise what they do and compete with their far larger rivals in ways not previously possible. The cloud enables individuals and businesses to access services over the internet without the need for them to invest in expensive equipment. |
| Jan 04, 2013 |
GCN: The tech behind NASA's Martian chroniclesMars. The red planet. Similar to Earth in many ways, it may be the only planet within the solar system capable of sustaining life. Sitting 154 million miles away from Earth (on the day Curiosity landed), countless books, movies and TV shows have starred the planet, and little green Martians have become a wacky staple of American culture. Suffice it to say, humans have often dreamt of their celestial neighbor and longed to explore its surface. But it doesn’t give up its secrets easily. |
| Jan 02, 2013 |
GCN: Appian Cloud app gets FISMA moderate security alertThe General Services Administration has granted moderate-level security certification to a business process management application built on Appian Cloud that the agency is using for acquisition planning, making it easier for other federal agencies to use Appian cloud-based software. Appian Cloud, which runs on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, has received Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Moderate Authorization and Accreditation. |
| Jan 02, 2013 |
The Banker: Banks Continue to Reach for the CloudsEvery e-mail that is sent, every tweet that is posted and every Facebook update that is published creates data that gets logged and backed up – somewhere. This ‘somewhere’ is 'the cloud'. With the continuous growth of digital social networks, this data cloud is expanding – creating both a buzz and opportunities for banks but also fears about data storage and maintenance. |
| Jan 01, 2013 |
Technology Banker: Amazon Web Services: Cloud Computing PioneerCloud computing is currently the technology craze. 'In the cloud' is now a common phrase among techies and even those who probably don't know what it means. The big question is, should the financial industry wholeheartedly embrace cloud computing? Or should it continue to accept it with great reservation? Technology Banker speaks to Glen Robinson, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, the very first ever company that launched cloud computing service in 2006. |
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