Amazon extends its cloud into education
Amazon.com launched an educators’ version of its cloud computing service. AWS in Education offers, according to its site, * Teaching Grants for educators using AWS in courses (plus access to selected...
View ArticleGmail down for part of yesterday
Gmail, Google’s email service, suffered an outage yesterday for nearly two hours. The explanation, according to the official Gmail blog, was that one set of tools overloaded. Request routers...
View ArticleCampuses increasingly shifting email to the cloud: Time magazine
College campuses are increasingly shifting email support to major cloud computing services, says Time magazine. That news source argues that the recession’s impact on campus budgets has driven a move...
View ArticleCloud computing the #1 technology for 2010: Gartner
Cloud computing is the leading technology for 2010, according to a Gartner Research presentation this week. In that group’s estimating the cloud elevated in importance, and subsumed some other trends:...
View ArticleGoogle expands content storage
Google announced an expansion of the amount and types of content users can store through Google Docs. While that service previously supported, Word documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint...
View ArticleMicrosoft and HP launch cloud computing collaboration
Microsoft and HP announced a cloud computing collaboration this week. The initiative costs $250 million and will last three years, covering a variety of cloud topics: security, reliability, etc. A...
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