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Filed under: Investing In an effort to improve the features, usability, and quality of cloud computing, Netflix is offering $100,000 in prize money to developers who submit winning applications in its Cloud Prize contest. The contest is divided up into 10 categories, each with $10,000 in prize money, awarded to developers judged by a panel of industry specialists. According...
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VMWare Looms as Amazon's Next Cloud Competition
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thestreet.com (2 months and 7 days ago)
The week in cloud: VMware cloud saga continues; Amazon kicks up monitoring wars
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gigaom.com (2 months and 10 days ago)
Amazon cloud watcher Newvem now watches Azure too
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With Cloud Drive Photos, Amazon makes a play to be the cloud app for iOS photos
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gigaom.com (9 days ago)
Why Netflix Loves Amazon
Filed under: Investing Netflix and Amazon.com are at each other's throats in the battle over the emerging online video market. But there's another area where the two companies couldn't be closer: the cloud. Fool contributor Demitrios Kalogeropoulos discusses this two-sided relationship in the video below, and points to another company for investors to watch for in the cloud...
dailyfinance.com (1 month and 27 days ago)
Amazon Will Cease to Amaze
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- For Amazon investors, the run higher has been nothing short of a storybook romance. So far, Amazon shares have encountered only small bumps on the way. It's easy to see why so many investors have fallen under the spell that valuations don't apply with Amazon. Even after Apple and Barnes & Noble created real competition for Amazon's Kindle, shares...
thestreet.com (20 days ago)
The week in cloud: VMware fesses up; Amazon churns out features; Newvem watches Amazon
It was a busy week in cloud as VMware took the wraps off its public cloud play; Newvem added still another way to watch your Amazon account; and Amazon itself churned out a ton of new AWS features.
gigaom.com (2 months and 4 days ago)
Cloud Computing Gets Deeper and More Strategic, Survey Shows
Close to two-fifths of organizations now run private clouds in one form or another, and one-fourth are using public cloud services in an enterprise capacity. Private clouds are being extended deeper into the organizations that have them -- a majority expect to be running most of their workloads in the cloud within the next 12 months, especially Platform as a Service...
forbes.com (1 month and 2 days ago)
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