Storage-optimized instance delivers more processing power, enhanced networking, and high I/O performance

Amazon Web Services, Inc. has announced the availability of I2 instances, the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) storage-optimized high I/O instances based on solid state disk (SSD) technology that provides customers with very high random I/O performance.

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Cost savings and DR drive Cloud adoption

Avere Systems has released the findings of an original cloud adoption study conducted at AWS re:Invent 2013. The overwhelming majority of attendees surveyed indicated that they currently or plan to use cloud for compute, storage, or application purposes within the next two to five years. Cost savings and disaster recovery were found to be the factors most heavily driving cloud storage adoption, indicating that organizations believe cloud storage has the potential to increase efficiency,...

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cloudBuy announces executive team appointments

cloudBuy, Europe’s leading transactional cloud platform, has announced the recruitment of a new global executive team to leverage its business and technical expertise to accelerate the global expansion of the company.

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